Pith Number

pith:3SAHMCCT

pith:2023:3SAHMCCT5YICX6SY6OFTLJV5FC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Earliest Stage of Galactic Star Formation

Albert Sneppen, Andrei Diaconu, Charles L. Steinhardt, Conor McPartland, John Forbes, John Weaver, Thomas H. Clark, Vadim Rusakov

arxiv:2301.01774 v2 · 2023-01-04 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3SAHMCCT5YICX6SY6OFTLJV5FC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T06:23:45.621391Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc80760853ee102bfa58f38b35a6bd28a6b31b96826c0e25f5310f3e1e530103

Aliases

arxiv: 2301.01774 · arxiv_version: 2301.01774v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.01774 · pith_short_12: 3SAHMCCT5YIC · pith_short_16: 3SAHMCCT5YICX6SY · pith_short_8: 3SAHMCCT

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/3SAHMCCT5YICX6SY6OFTLJV5FC \
  | 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: dc80760853ee102bfa58f38b35a6bd28a6b31b96826c0e25f5310f3e1e530103

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ebfe929f3e51017b617af449db345c9d49afd9ad95b2a1df2c0530ad6567ec61",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2023-01-04T19:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b788d58bb32bdebe9203308cc79cc0b700b76ad959f34b16eacbdb19a03e3b1b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2301.01774",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}