Pith Number

pith:XKTPBROS

pith:2017:XKTPBROSWZHYLFVSSIHCKCBFQX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tidal Distortion of the Envelope of an AGB Star IRS 3 near Sgr A*

D. A. Roberts, D. Kunneriath, F. Yusef-Zadeh, M. J. Royster, M. Wardle, R. Sch\"odel, W. Cotton

arxiv:1702.02196 v1 · 2017-02-07 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XKTPBROSWZHYLFVSSIHCKCBFQX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:48:46.604980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

baa6f0c5d2b64f8596b2920e25082585e0a34f8694ecaf3eedb205cde4b0e725

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.02196 · arxiv_version: 1702.02196v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.02196 · pith_short_12: XKTPBROSWZHY · pith_short_16: XKTPBROSWZHYLFVS · pith_short_8: XKTPBROS

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/XKTPBROSWZHYLFVSSIHCKCBFQX \
  | 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: baa6f0c5d2b64f8596b2920e25082585e0a34f8694ecaf3eedb205cde4b0e725

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65c470c2012d16cc80c8ff80c939248856cd6337cefe48a1bcc8d0c9293077fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-07T21:05:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3799a77a25ec61eade0468bf72590e74f58dee767769495de5883ecbb84fd4b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.02196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}