Pith Number

pith:VSWRSUC4

pith:2017:VSWRSUC4NVT6R4GZDPLOISYVNX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bright X-ray flares from Sgr A*

A. Eckart, G.D. Karssen, J. Horak, M. Bursa, M. Dovciak, M. Valencia-S., V. Karas

arxiv:1709.09896 v2 · 2017-09-28 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSWRSUC4NVT6R4GZDPLOISYVNX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:32:38.684787Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acad19505c6d67e8f0d91bd6e44b156dc4a2452ee257a46c56e4175a050aa3c2

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.09896 · arxiv_version: 1709.09896v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.09896 · pith_short_12: VSWRSUC4NVT6 · pith_short_16: VSWRSUC4NVT6R4GZ · pith_short_8: VSWRSUC4

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/VSWRSUC4NVT6R4GZDPLOISYVNX \
  | 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: acad19505c6d67e8f0d91bd6e44b156dc4a2452ee257a46c56e4175a050aa3c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce5db0bf030735d62fd41b1d91871c4c7e0ef33076d0fb9148cba631fe0f43a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-28T11:24:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c8c5166614c3a733bbecf0f07931a4d3796a9885bc279fde56d06d07ccf7c73"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.09896",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}