Pith Number

pith:3AF2VZ5C

pith:1996:3AF2VZ5CNCTWOITNGUJWN3PU7A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The spatial distributions of cooling gas and intrinsic X-ray absorbing material in cooling flows

A.C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, S.W. Allen, UK)

arxiv:astro-ph/9612032 v1 · 1996-12-03 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3AF2VZ5CNCTWOITNGUJWN3PU7A}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:40:18.696414Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d80baae7a268a767226d351366edf4f82a5732f4dec613796c54d9e276381caa

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9612032 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9612032v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9612032 · pith_short_12: 3AF2VZ5CNCTW · pith_short_16: 3AF2VZ5CNCTWOITN · pith_short_8: 3AF2VZ5C

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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/3AF2VZ5CNCTWOITNGUJWN3PU7A \
  | 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: d80baae7a268a767226d351366edf4f82a5732f4dec613796c54d9e276381caa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00fdeb6878df5bcb8fa47f2db938ff14562638764bfac64765fe321f39793c8c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-03T17:17:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78dcf8507cff166a7821debe338d21ecd239114a7f098d178dc568b1bbc4d78e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9612032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}