Pith Number

pith:VK46KDSP

pith:2013:VK46KDSPLLNEDXHXAA4FZFDRPO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Simulations of the origin and fate of the Galactic Center cloud G2

A. Ballone, A. Burkert, Ch. Alig, F. Eisenhauer, M. Schartmann, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, T. Fritz

arxiv:1302.0124 v1 · 2013-02-01 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VK46KDSPLLNEDXHXAA4FZFDRPO}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:34:47.324600Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aab9e50e4f5ada41dcf700385c94717baee047c656f2747ad20c109c8d215209

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.0124 · arxiv_version: 1302.0124v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.0124 · pith_short_12: VK46KDSPLLNE · pith_short_16: VK46KDSPLLNEDXHX · pith_short_8: VK46KDSP

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/VK46KDSPLLNEDXHXAA4FZFDRPO \
  | 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: aab9e50e4f5ada41dcf700385c94717baee047c656f2747ad20c109c8d215209

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9916300edb2e88c6fcb8dcba0076295136c6dfe3f4eb6fd381a7f81853cf723",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-01T10:12:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dbf60da5852fc9e8315a6475a6e130b68932a23804ad3dcada2f7db4539ddca9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.0124",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}