Pith Number

pith:YSWD4BFU

pith:2016:YSWD4BFUG4UH2OLJ5FUHNMJHKA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Upper Limit on the Mass of a Central Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud from the Stellar Rotation Field

H. Baumgardt, H. Boyce, M. Kissler-Patig, N. L\"utzgendorf, N. Neumayer, P.T. de Zeeuw, R. P. van der Marel

arxiv:1612.00045 v2 · 2016-11-30 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YSWD4BFUG4UH2OLJ5FUHNMJHKA}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:36:03.678706Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c4ac3e04b437287d3969e96876b127501b8d49a219706143f39e796f8189687d

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.00045 · arxiv_version: 1612.00045v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.00045 · pith_short_12: YSWD4BFUG4UH · pith_short_16: YSWD4BFUG4UH2OLJ · pith_short_8: YSWD4BFU

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YSWD4BFUG4UH2OLJ5FUHNMJHKA \
  | 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: c4ac3e04b437287d3969e96876b127501b8d49a219706143f39e796f8189687d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7da6acd3972fd751e9a1b10909c9edb82d902bb1fa177ccb762e23b2180ebfe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-30T21:40:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c45b7a61b853a9633f71eb5043593abf64b5c6abfa915cb7beafc6f2691ac75e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.00045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}