Pith Number

pith:57SJHTTO

pith:2014:57SJHTTO7LSM7EYKCHAXYFBOUL

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Evolving Molecular Cloud Structure and the Column Density Probability Distribution Function

Alison Sills, James Wadsley, Rachel L. Ward

arxiv:1409.2540 v1 · 2014-09-08 · astro-ph.GA

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:42:06.290375Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efe493ce6efae4cf930a11c17c142ea2ccc64697a3ef34ce688c7e12c26e4053

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.2540 · arxiv_version: 1409.2540v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.2540 · pith_short_12: 57SJHTTO7LSM · pith_short_16: 57SJHTTO7LSM7EYK · pith_short_8: 57SJHTTO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/57SJHTTO7LSM7EYKCHAXYFBOUL \
  | 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: efe493ce6efae4cf930a11c17c142ea2ccc64697a3ef34ce688c7e12c26e4053

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9183b6ea1ce3e356f51d1d4b50342bfadc8ff5e039822a160788ee82997e2677",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-08T22:14:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa379ad5f24c134d6d5f56612643a59809527ac4a168317867c502a4ddfd2be1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.2540",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}