Pith Number

pith:RUL5TQC3

pith:1999:RUL5TQC3LHHWSRR7T2M7TNX5BI

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The Galactic Center Isolated Nonthermal Filaments as Analogs of Cometary Plasma Tails

Steven N. Shore (Indiana Univ. South Bend), T. N. LaRosa (Kennesaw State Univ.)

arxiv:astro-ph/9904048 v1 · 1999-04-03 · astro-ph

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:10:52.068737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d17d9c05b59cf69463f9e99f9b6fd0a34e1919cbd37c55778a3a9bf58873f5e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9904048 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9904048v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9904048 · pith_short_12: RUL5TQC3LHHW · pith_short_16: RUL5TQC3LHHWSRR7 · pith_short_8: RUL5TQC3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RUL5TQC3LHHWSRR7T2M7TNX5BI \
  | 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: 8d17d9c05b59cf69463f9e99f9b6fd0a34e1919cbd37c55778a3a9bf58873f5e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83a89bd7b283229c08ff155226e4c7f0f2c2e3006574bc1018580f01b07fbae4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-04-03T19:40:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd7e52a6d08e1c27d299ca132568f9b01e01463d788f2cb32ed716383099b563"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9904048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}