Pith Number

pith:2CDSRZOA

pith:2017:2CDSRZOA2D3BBIY4JRWD3X7ER6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Varying Mass Distribution of Molecular Clouds Across M83

(2) Heidelberg, 3), (3) MPIA, (4) LJMU, (5) Stockholm U.), Angela Adamo (5) ((1) U. Alberta, Erik Rosolowsky (1), J. M. Diederik Kruijssen (2, Nate Bastian (4), Pamela Freeman (1)

arxiv:1702.07728 v1 · 2017-02-24 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2CDSRZOA2D3BBIY4JRWD3X7ER6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:12.545010Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d08728e5c0d0f610a31c4c6c3ddfe48f8694915ff387a213c995ee032b2884ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.07728 · arxiv_version: 1702.07728v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.07728 · pith_short_12: 2CDSRZOA2D3B · pith_short_16: 2CDSRZOA2D3BBIY4 · pith_short_8: 2CDSRZOA

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/2CDSRZOA2D3BBIY4JRWD3X7ER6 \
  | 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: d08728e5c0d0f610a31c4c6c3ddfe48f8694915ff387a213c995ee032b2884ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f225eec61ee9b1accde6f9c32adda3d942d779d8392281a7598e39634829d958",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-24T19:00:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bea8c4afe488f32062ab60a9bfbdccb873a27261f6832ae34810c33c6340bf03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.07728",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}