Pith Number

pith:4LMBGBK3

pith:2001:4LMBGBK3PLL2QRWJVFVZH3RUOG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Formation of massive stars by growing accretion rate

A. Maeder, R. Behrend

arxiv:astro-ph/0105054 v1 · 2001-05-03 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4LMBGBK3PLL2QRWJVFVZH3RUOG}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:07:45.877959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2d813055b7ad7a846c9a96b93ee34719f968938293195a2f0c4ada1d055dade

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0105054 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0105054v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0105054 · pith_short_12: 4LMBGBK3PLL2 · pith_short_16: 4LMBGBK3PLL2QRWJ · pith_short_8: 4LMBGBK3

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/4LMBGBK3PLL2QRWJVFVZH3RUOG \
  | 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: e2d813055b7ad7a846c9a96b93ee34719f968938293195a2f0c4ada1d055dade

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9d3bcad27cd0f69714520199478142a6eb96a598b47e035da9b8902ac67ba1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-05-03T12:33:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9f8fbe55d5dce8ad686e59734fce187d7b37d701a8bf7bc0d6d8037445ffdf4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0105054",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}