Pith Number

pith:ZPUWBWD4

pith:2020:ZPUWBWD4NXIZHB5KESMW6S6AJG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A stream of hypervelocity stars from the Galactic Center

Aleksey Generozov

arxiv:2005.10267 v2 · 2020-05-20 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZPUWBWD4NXIZHB5KESMW6S6AJG}

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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	2026-07-05T02:11:21.408062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cbe960d87c6dd19387aa24996f4bc049bd67c916edd1ebd4c9bd0cbfb40790dc

Aliases

arxiv: 2005.10267 · arxiv_version: 2005.10267v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2005.10267 · pith_short_12: ZPUWBWD4NXIZ · pith_short_16: ZPUWBWD4NXIZHB5K · pith_short_8: ZPUWBWD4

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/ZPUWBWD4NXIZHB5KESMW6S6AJG \
  | 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: cbe960d87c6dd19387aa24996f4bc049bd67c916edd1ebd4c9bd0cbfb40790dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1916ebee4ee03a7454870a00a558b715f4c72810a008b20928baa122bc082ff9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2020-05-20T18:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79e43d382f72caa7a2b86b00c51f2f6259fe0547bc7ad3d10d3b96c73310b405"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2005.10267",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}