Pith Number

pith:5ER7PLXD

pith:1997:5ER7PLXDF2SU2ATRTVU7G3YFHI

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The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centres

Alan Dressler, Carl Grillmair, Douglas Richstone, Gary Bower, John Kormendy, John Magorrian, Karl Gebhardt, Ralf Bender, Richard Green, Scott Tremaine, S. M. Faber, Tod Lauer

arxiv:astro-ph/9708072 v1 · 1997-08-07 · astro-ph

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Lattice study of primordial black hole formation in bumpy axion inflation

Precision near-IR spectroscopy for understanding AGN physics and shed light on the H0 tension -- SHARP Science Book

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:03:10.838770Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e923f7aee32ea54d02719d69f36f053a27002b2e6294c46b23f84938971a7809

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9708072 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9708072v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9708072 · pith_short_12: 5ER7PLXDF2SU · pith_short_16: 5ER7PLXDF2SU2ATR · pith_short_8: 5ER7PLXD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5ER7PLXDF2SU2ATRTVU7G3YFHI \
  | 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: e923f7aee32ea54d02719d69f36f053a27002b2e6294c46b23f84938971a7809

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "991c09d3f0164be1cac3a20e2194bd090cdd4982e31c502420147dca16bcd2e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-08-07T21:17:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90dc3bdc6328cf30c95dd54ba75a5d842828d88ad19c4d6a04fd2dd7be2728f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9708072",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}