Pith Number

pith:47VHATVN

pith:2012:47VHATVN7RUQN355C5FPEJ43HL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Triggered star-formation in the inner filament of Centaurus A

Bradley C. Whitmore, Joseph Silk, Marina Rejkuba, Max Mutchler, R. Mark Crockett, Robert W. O'Connell, Rogier A. Windhorst, Stanislav S. Shabala, Sugata Kaviraj, Vincenzo Antonuccio-Delogu

arxiv:1201.3369 v1 · 2012-01-16 · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{47VHATVN7RUQN355C5FPEJ43HL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:48.570184Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7ea704eadfc6906efbd174af2279b3af3d9a07eea6fb0f23a026895f49b908f

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.3369 · arxiv_version: 1201.3369v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.3369 · pith_short_12: 47VHATVN7RUQ · pith_short_16: 47VHATVN7RUQN355 · pith_short_8: 47VHATVN

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/47VHATVN7RUQN355C5FPEJ43HL \
  | 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: e7ea704eadfc6906efbd174af2279b3af3d9a07eea6fb0f23a026895f49b908f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "702274e6c62da7d6f113a954aabea36a8a4a6cff14077b22782a53737bf594c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-16T21:01:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4487a61aabe836d44895347cecdbd5e79c88b9d9ab27e7848c7dfa7af3d5db0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.3369",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}