Pith Number

pith:MBH4PUUB

pith:2012:MBH4PUUBO5SBJ4UYSY2M4XHKJS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Binary Disruption by Massive Black Holes: Hypervelocity Stars, S Stars, and Tidal Disruption Events

Benjamin C. Bromley (1), Margaret J. Geller (2), Scott J. Kenyon (2), Warren R. Brown (2) ((1) University of Utah (2) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

arxiv:1203.6685 v1 · 2012-03-29 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MBH4PUUBO5SBJ4UYSY2M4XHKJS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:00.238480Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

604fc7d281776414f2989634ce5cea4c94b24453a92d18a64532d4675d8b2dfa

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.6685 · arxiv_version: 1203.6685v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.6685 · pith_short_12: MBH4PUUBO5SB · pith_short_16: MBH4PUUBO5SBJ4UY · pith_short_8: MBH4PUUB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MBH4PUUBO5SBJ4UYSY2M4XHKJS \
  | 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: 604fc7d281776414f2989634ce5cea4c94b24453a92d18a64532d4675d8b2dfa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd3679fa8a2ca3a388ed8c156ccbc026316ff6c43baca1c860be02158cdaf327",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-29T23:10:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c77608e165a6882d8b98eedd4f3556c462c3d3918a66ee41db24659e7b867f91"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.6685",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}