Pith Number

pith:34NKPKRG

pith:2008:34NKPKRGAKTGIKP3QSYIYCEEOW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Trojan Stars in the Galactic Center

Junichiro Makino, Masaki Iwasawa, Michiko Fujii, Yoko Funato

arxiv:0807.2818 v2 · 2008-07-17 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{34NKPKRGAKTGIKP3QSYIYCEEOW}

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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	2026-05-18T04:29:33.215658Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

df1aa7aa2602a66429fb84b08c088475970e74e3504125f80198d86158f8cb1f

Aliases

arxiv: 0807.2818 · arxiv_version: 0807.2818v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0807.2818 · pith_short_12: 34NKPKRGAKTG · pith_short_16: 34NKPKRGAKTGIKP3 · pith_short_8: 34NKPKRG

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/34NKPKRGAKTGIKP3QSYIYCEEOW \
  | 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: df1aa7aa2602a66429fb84b08c088475970e74e3504125f80198d86158f8cb1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3de6fa8a11fba94a1f1ae01bd43a4c5a60c74bbfd374084c4aa0ac2ed7e327b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-07-17T16:10:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3cb6548cf5e8a02cc0cc910bfe1ca1de80454ef4b69f73ca27b3f65743f52815"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0807.2818",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}