Pith Number

pith:ZFVXYJNO

pith:2024:ZFVXYJNO5RCLMWRBHKGLAB43BL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The central engine of low-luminosity radio galaxy 3C 270 (NGC 4261)

Chengzhang Jiang, Jose A. Acosta-Pulido, Patrick Ogle, Robert Antonucci

arxiv:2412.10591 v3 · 2024-12-13 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZFVXYJNO5RCLMWRBHKGLAB43BL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T11:02:15.166344Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c96b7c25aeec44b65a213a8cb0079b0aef4811e254d9f66e548b259fe2220f96

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.10591 · arxiv_version: 2412.10591v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.10591 · pith_short_12: ZFVXYJNO5RCL · pith_short_16: ZFVXYJNO5RCLMWRB · pith_short_8: ZFVXYJNO

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/ZFVXYJNO5RCLMWRBHKGLAB43BL \
  | 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: c96b7c25aeec44b65a213a8cb0079b0aef4811e254d9f66e548b259fe2220f96

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f037b61a875ca27c82a8f3c5968f8fa2f31237e2122ab073786e5f359006f66f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-13T22:22:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64bda31f781216eff60de4d7a5a0fb8ea12b3fc2cc7a5b83e83a527b777af157"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.10591",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}