Pith Number

pith:3Y7WBTR7

pith:2018:3Y7WBTR7NLDB2WIYVRV7MZKSUZ

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On the physical mechanisms governing the cloud lifecycle in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way

(2) ANU, (3) LJMU), J. M. D. Kruijssen (1), M. R. Krumholz (2), S. M. R. Jeffreson (1), S. N. Longmore (3) ((1) Heidelberg

arxiv:1805.02655 v1 · 2018-05-07 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3Y7WBTR7NLDB2WIYVRV7MZKSUZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:54.114372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de3f60ce3f6ac61d5918ac6bf66552a6534efc2ffd3690337412e2480a561ef4

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.02655 · arxiv_version: 1805.02655v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.02655 · pith_short_12: 3Y7WBTR7NLDB · pith_short_16: 3Y7WBTR7NLDB2WIY · pith_short_8: 3Y7WBTR7

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/3Y7WBTR7NLDB2WIYVRV7MZKSUZ \
  | 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: de3f60ce3f6ac61d5918ac6bf66552a6534efc2ffd3690337412e2480a561ef4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "496ebec9483759be22881dec8ca243c538c60bd3a4c01bc94c6e313d13b17967",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-07T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "880de1fd7cdbc56344c1018435095aa5174863b8c21cd4b026c83522186d7acd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.02655",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}