Pith Number

pith:ZBV6O4BT

pith:2017:ZBV6O4BTFYBNNNCFIRKGMGRIJJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole Escape Velocities from Dark Matter Halos

Benjamin Moster, Chung-Pei Ma, Joseph Silk, Marta Volonteri, Nick Choksi, Peter Behroozi, Raffaela Schneider

arxiv:1707.06220 v3 · 2017-07-19 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZBV6O4BTFYBNNNCFIRKGMGRIJJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:47.566721Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c86be770332e02d6b4454454661a284a7dc4cc7958577968b2c10b4c63fd1053

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.06220 · arxiv_version: 1707.06220v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.06220 · pith_short_12: ZBV6O4BTFYBN · pith_short_16: ZBV6O4BTFYBNNNCF · pith_short_8: ZBV6O4BT

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/ZBV6O4BTFYBNNNCFIRKGMGRIJJ \
  | 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: c86be770332e02d6b4454454661a284a7dc4cc7958577968b2c10b4c63fd1053

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "afd0674dac55619df67b8852e197476afc80dcba0d6ab0de983619f8fb92447b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-19T17:55:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c94837fcad01adf0d5f8e2a20c736fab0cb14c3373f64ad83e9e2655037f030d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.06220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}