Pith Number

pith:ZKWMLUAW

pith:2017:ZKWMLUAWTW27EOI3YYRJDDZD6C

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The Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole: How good a case is it? A Challenge for Astrophysics & Philosophy of Science

Andreas Eckart, Andreas Huettemann, Claus Kiefer, Claus Laemmerzahl, Macarena Garcia-Marin, Manfred Stockler, Michal Zajacek, Monica Valencia-S., Silke Britzen, Vladimir Karas

arxiv:1703.09118 v2 · 2017-03-27 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZKWMLUAWTW27EOI3YYRJDDZD6C}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:00.214849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

caacc5d0169db5f2391bc622918f23f0a75a820af64f02ff3f61e40da261e9c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.09118 · arxiv_version: 1703.09118v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.09118 · pith_short_12: ZKWMLUAWTW27 · pith_short_16: ZKWMLUAWTW27EOI3 · pith_short_8: ZKWMLUAW

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/ZKWMLUAWTW27EOI3YYRJDDZD6C \
  | 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: caacc5d0169db5f2391bc622918f23f0a75a820af64f02ff3f61e40da261e9c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76960e0a5497d79e76d0825d531e89b8b881382e45aa2c02ed26b4db3520af4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-27T14:44:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "986050d2e78a78b8eee0d674cc321b41db609fc30ac6e6b2433f75338334c891"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.09118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}