Pith Number

pith:6ETCPNWR

pith:2004:6ETCPNWRPX7WODF5OXDI32MHH2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Molecular Cloud Formation Behind Shock Waves

Edwin A. Bergin (U. MI), Javier Ballesteros-Paredes (UNAM), John C. Raymond (CfA), Lee W. Hartmann (CfA)

arxiv:astro-ph/0405329 v1 · 2004-05-17 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ETCPNWRPX7WODF5OXDI32MHH2}

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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	2026-07-04T15:26:26.305376Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f12627b6d17dff670cbd75c68de9873eb06867d702030e5942c7987e9a314f37

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0405329 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0405329v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0405329 · pith_short_12: 6ETCPNWRPX7W · pith_short_16: 6ETCPNWRPX7WODF5 · pith_short_8: 6ETCPNWR

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/6ETCPNWRPX7WODF5OXDI32MHH2 \
  | 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: f12627b6d17dff670cbd75c68de9873eb06867d702030e5942c7987e9a314f37

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4073dae3fa7420ed751d4b400e2707475981fe2ef6bf6aa5edacdf3b7f2c296a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-05-17T17:56:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64b049d24385c687e6235a711104b36ad0da993e106a699c8c52937359a2094b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0405329",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}