Pith Number

pith:GVNB36FU

pith:2010:GVNB36FU4UXOD7JNU4NTH424FW

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Wandering Black Holes in Bright Disk Galaxy Halos

Fabio Governato, James Wadsley, Jillian Bellovary, Marta Volonteri, Sijing Shen, Tom Quinn

arxiv:1008.5147 v2 · 2010-08-30 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GVNB36FU4UXOD7JNU4NTH424FW}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:33:38.846486Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

355a1df8b4e52ee1fd2da71b33f35c2dbcbd1cefa5c254a00c9e10dd0649bcda

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.5147 · arxiv_version: 1008.5147v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.5147 · pith_short_12: GVNB36FU4UXO · pith_short_16: GVNB36FU4UXOD7JN · pith_short_8: GVNB36FU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GVNB36FU4UXOD7JNU4NTH424FW \
  | 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: 355a1df8b4e52ee1fd2da71b33f35c2dbcbd1cefa5c254a00c9e10dd0649bcda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88204531c5b4284c8583520354c946f58c57c4213199b4721950cf3c8ef1e02a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-30T20:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a44d94dd11323ac5808d1f60c673718039dece20f939b3ede002090d4a00988"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.5147",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}