Pith Number

pith:VXCMP7CH

pith:2017:VXCMP7CHNGQPVYYLYQOUZLV3MN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polarimetry narrows down the possibilities for the Dusty S-cluster Object (DSO/G2) in the Galactic centre

Andreas Eckart, Banafsheh Shahzamanian, Michal Zaja\v{c}ek

arxiv:1704.03700 v1 · 2017-04-12 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXCMP7CHNGQPVYYLYQOUZLV3MN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:27.094952Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adc4c7fc4769a0fae30bc41d4caebb6350897be607c0b21902c46a0d3c8becfa

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.03700 · arxiv_version: 1704.03700v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.03700 · pith_short_12: VXCMP7CHNGQP · pith_short_16: VXCMP7CHNGQPVYYL · pith_short_8: VXCMP7CH

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/VXCMP7CHNGQPVYYLYQOUZLV3MN \
  | 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: adc4c7fc4769a0fae30bc41d4caebb6350897be607c0b21902c46a0d3c8becfa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "243c2a5c204e39a48017472afd1c0b5d09908198daf62affe1e833dadd7c8ccf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-12T11:05:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b022b9c3dbd26c25f65e7e8fc161bd555b4d3b861917bbf7522e035a05ffa363"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.03700",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}