Pith Number

pith:3OLTIH47

pith:2008:3OLTIH476RALGPPXAPC4HLTOEE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Massive Star Formation in the Galactic Center

D. F. Figer

arxiv:0803.1619 v2 · 2008-03-11 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3OLTIH476RALGPPXAPC4HLTOEE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:16:00.345670Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db97341f9ff440b33df703c5c3ae6e2136d01a69f8ae102a8353494e8992df59

Aliases

arxiv: 0803.1619 · arxiv_version: 0803.1619v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0803.1619 · pith_short_12: 3OLTIH476RAL · pith_short_16: 3OLTIH476RALGPPX · pith_short_8: 3OLTIH47

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/3OLTIH476RALGPPXAPC4HLTOEE \
  | 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: db97341f9ff440b33df703c5c3ae6e2136d01a69f8ae102a8353494e8992df59

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e41892f8fee40478df86d28c76bf4d9d9259f7395acee239a3a87308ddde7e25",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-03-11T16:08:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95b8a794348e7aed30ca87ef97d1b11e89b9016ff824ed50c310cde6a18398a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0803.1619",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}