Pith Number

pith:DFESSE5E

pith:2015:DFESSE5EV5IN3P767DXMMWVJVD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gamma Rays, Electrons, Hard X-Rays, and the Central Parsec of the Milky Way

Matthew D. Kistler (KIPAC, SLAC), Stanford

arxiv:1511.00723 v2 · 2015-11-02 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DFESSE5EV5IN3P767DXMMWVJVD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:56:38.134296Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

19492913a4af50ddbffef8eec65aa9a8e490507b399321c92c79f1a3af9d821e

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.00723 · arxiv_version: 1511.00723v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.00723 · pith_short_12: DFESSE5EV5IN · pith_short_16: DFESSE5EV5IN3P76 · pith_short_8: DFESSE5E

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/DFESSE5EV5IN3P767DXMMWVJVD \
  | 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: 19492913a4af50ddbffef8eec65aa9a8e490507b399321c92c79f1a3af9d821e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09c7dcf1c7a0791c1407d3238252cc9c583a0df24f22a565f5ea99a6208c8610",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-02T21:51:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fb6d9b112e005917affab3bedd136a9400cd786d5080e93759daa3f5c3e6c8da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.00723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}