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pith:RWFTYCU4

pith:2012:RWFTYCU4MIDX65MSI2RCVZ7YJG

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Reconciling stellar dynamical and hydrostatic X-ray mass measurements of an elliptical galaxy with gas rotation, turbulence and magnetic fields

David A. Buote (UC Irvine), Fabrizio Brighenti (Bologna), Karl Gebhardt (U Texas), Philip J. Humphrey (UC Irvine), William G. Mathews (UCSC)

arxiv:1205.0256 v2 · 2012-05-01 · astro-ph.CO

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\pithnumber{RWFTYCU4MIDX65MSI2RCVZ7YJG}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:57:39.241061Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d8b3c0a9c62077f759246a22ae7f849aa0df662d95a0458f5f0af3ba904cd2d

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0256 · arxiv_version: 1205.0256v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0256 · pith_short_12: RWFTYCU4MIDX · pith_short_16: RWFTYCU4MIDX65MS · pith_short_8: RWFTYCU4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RWFTYCU4MIDX65MSI2RCVZ7YJG \
  | 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: 8d8b3c0a9c62077f759246a22ae7f849aa0df662d95a0458f5f0af3ba904cd2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "778afba16256fdb39543ad7c80bb0d532b7724943c85e78c851cf5d6cb1c19a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-01T20:03:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6033e300f4635327b5b3c182bd9f5c81135ec0dfe4f1f8b170f034a03ba1b843"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}