Pith Number

pith:RTC4746H

pith:2017:RTC4746HKGTQ6R4QOU637RXF7P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Detection of Enhanced Central Mass-to-Light Ratios in Low-Mass Early-Type Galaxies: Evidence for Black Holes?

Anil Seth, Jay Strader, Mark den Brok, Michele Cappellari, Renuka Pechetti, Richard McDermid, Steffen Mieske

arxiv:1709.09172 v1 · 2017-09-26 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{RTC4746HKGTQ6R4QOU637RXF7P}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:00.181822Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8cc5cff3c751a70f4790753dbfc6e5fbf110843bff685c9945394be6ea99aa63

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.09172 · arxiv_version: 1709.09172v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.09172 · pith_short_12: RTC4746HKGTQ · pith_short_16: RTC4746HKGTQ6R4Q · pith_short_8: RTC4746H

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RTC4746HKGTQ6R4QOU637RXF7P \
  | 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: 8cc5cff3c751a70f4790753dbfc6e5fbf110843bff685c9945394be6ea99aa63

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d71677ec431cc6624c5a5bc8c2ac646eace84f87b4616cd394feefab3735a182",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-26T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "982ea5fd84b7f4b812d9e540840acfb80d17e3d908d1bf7757ef99bf881f6263"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.09172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}