Pith Number

pith:VSHZTKH2

pith:2002:VSHZTKH2IECQQXYAXQLO5PBKHS

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The Large-scale Bipolar Wind in the Galactic Center

Joss Bland-Hawthorn (AAO), Martin Cohen (Berkeley)

arxiv:astro-ph/0208553 v1 · 2002-08-30 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{VSHZTKH2IECQQXYAXQLO5PBKHS}

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Detection of polarized Fermi-bubble synchrotron and dust emission

Nested Fermi and eROSITA bubbles require very similar $\sim10^{56}$ erg collimated Galactic-center outbursts; their asymmetry indicates an eastern density gradient

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:27:05.083209Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac8f99a8fa4105085f00bc16eebc2a3c80065a76af76098c1fec59af8519d383

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0208553 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0208553v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0208553 · pith_short_12: VSHZTKH2IECQ · pith_short_16: VSHZTKH2IECQQXYA · pith_short_8: VSHZTKH2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VSHZTKH2IECQQXYAXQLO5PBKHS \
  | 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: ac8f99a8fa4105085f00bc16eebc2a3c80065a76af76098c1fec59af8519d383

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b9e1306f4bcd999d029514e7bf58ebe3a631b47e6078a9647a9e97f9a73c6b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-30T00:22:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6c6815c949cbb5cf7518c316e69833cf613a95a08826ac0d8438b96de73dab5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0208553",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}