Pith Number

pith:3DIZWVXV

pith:2017:3DIZWVXVISA6VRY4YITRRFO4DC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pillars of creation amongst destruction: Star formation in molecular clouds near R136 in 30 Doradus

Bruce G. Elmegreen, Cinthya N. Herrera, Hans Zinnecker, Monica Rubio, Venu M. Kalari, Viviana V. Guzm\'an

arxiv:1711.03153 v2 · 2017-11-08 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3DIZWVXVISA6VRY4YITRRFO4DC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:16.296617Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8d19b56f54481eac71cc2271895dc18af24d0609fab4ca301bcd80c5ae4bc7f

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.03153 · arxiv_version: 1711.03153v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.03153 · pith_short_12: 3DIZWVXVISA6 · pith_short_16: 3DIZWVXVISA6VRY4 · pith_short_8: 3DIZWVXV

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/3DIZWVXVISA6VRY4YITRRFO4DC \
  | 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: d8d19b56f54481eac71cc2271895dc18af24d0609fab4ca301bcd80c5ae4bc7f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a65e80183bf91817c8bd030d945017529bf0bdccde5f797a60be880c45a15dbd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-08T20:37:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8fceb9199600ace33943096b8432d04b0c62cc6707637fd9f14ae01b7e77c5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.03153",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}