Pith Number

pith:LO4FS4XA

pith:2017:LO4FS4XA7AJKJS3FTNOYDGNKHK

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Relativistic deflection of background starlight measures the mass of a nearby white dwarf star

Andrea Bellini, Annalisa Calamida, Edmund P. Nelan, Howard E. Bond, Jay Anderson, Joshua Sokol, Kailash C. Sahu, Laurent Pueyo, Mario Livio, Martin Dominik, No\'e Kains, Pierre Bergeron, Stefano Casertano, Thomas M. Brown, Zoltan G. Levay

arxiv:1706.02037 v1 · 2017-06-07 · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{LO4FS4XA7AJKJS3FTNOYDGNKHK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:42:50.395983Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5bb85972e0f812a4cb659b5d8199aa3aa8f9136abc86d9a609ccf9680a6461d6

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.02037 · arxiv_version: 1706.02037v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.02037 · pith_short_12: LO4FS4XA7AJK · pith_short_16: LO4FS4XA7AJKJS3F · pith_short_8: LO4FS4XA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LO4FS4XA7AJKJS3FTNOYDGNKHK \
  | 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: 5bb85972e0f812a4cb659b5d8199aa3aa8f9136abc86d9a609ccf9680a6461d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e857f0d1bf38dd3e5ce3bfba27143c152be8987076a625afdb6f21f19102fbfa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-07T03:26:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6cfc4f25baa0a20d3d98f4f6a4886c7504d6df3412257d03aa0cf47a19ca1f5c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.02037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}