Pith Number

pith:RQ2YH4QX

pith:2013:RQ2YH4QX4YUYTHPAGHJRNPZBBT

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The Black Hole Mass and the Stellar Ring in NGC 3706

Douglas O. Richstone, John Kormendy, Karl Gebhardt, Kayhan G\"ultekin, Ralf Bender, Scott Tremaine, Tod R. Lauer

arxiv:1312.4799 v1 · 2013-12-17 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQ2YH4QX4YUYTHPAGHJRNPZBBT}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:45:49.762924Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c3583f217e629899de031d316bf210ccb9c3c10585abdfa2b6af645fdcf05b0

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.4799 · arxiv_version: 1312.4799v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.4799 · pith_short_12: RQ2YH4QX4YUY · pith_short_16: RQ2YH4QX4YUYTHPA · pith_short_8: RQ2YH4QX

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RQ2YH4QX4YUYTHPAGHJRNPZBBT \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8c3583f217e629899de031d316bf210ccb9c3c10585abdfa2b6af645fdcf05b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95c9dfafd2dba0eccc79644706e71be87df0a506d35d9d5d3ee0d8f2ec0ccbf9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-17T14:27:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8c1705b2b54e7f6feb3ce6aa09f2d13bf59050dad388ecc945080888044fb32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.4799",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}