Pith Number

pith:TPU7QWJI

pith:2015:TPU7QWJI2ASH5GZWZTXCJQXLSB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

KMOS view of the Galactic Centre I. Young stars are centrally concentrated

A. Feldmeier-Krause, A. Seth, C. J. Walcher, H. Kuntschner, M. Hilker, M. Kissler-Patig, N. L\"utzgendorf, N. Neumayer, P. T. de Zeeuw, R. Sch\"odel

arxiv:1509.04707 v2 · 2015-09-15 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TPU7QWJI2ASH5GZWZTXCJQXLSB}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:14.221707Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9be9f85928d0247e9b36ccee24c2eb905c7d0f89753e8a2bac9631e5771e7db0

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.04707 · arxiv_version: 1509.04707v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.04707 · pith_short_12: TPU7QWJI2ASH · pith_short_16: TPU7QWJI2ASH5GZW · pith_short_8: TPU7QWJI

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/TPU7QWJI2ASH5GZWZTXCJQXLSB \
  | 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: 9be9f85928d0247e9b36ccee24c2eb905c7d0f89753e8a2bac9631e5771e7db0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d202394a0c1af58ab5e57356ecd0e7fae9a4c96b90cebe4e7eec82dd2324a34",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-15T20:02:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59e42606ff4fb60dadd6e1f41497864d00d6d7f023245c2fa4854be7ff7bcf46"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.04707",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}