Pith Number

pith:6IB5HSOK

pith:2012:6IB5HSOKAZLRPTDNVHOX3MNMHS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Building galaxies by accretion and in-situ star formation

C. N. Lackner, J. P. Ostriker, M. R. Joung, R. Cen

arxiv:1206.0295 v1 · 2012-06-01 · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6IB5HSOKAZLRPTDNVHOX3MNMHS}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:57:08.748564Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f203d3c9ca065717cc6da9dd7db1ac3c990fa965c5457ab87d3f7921e0b89288

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.0295 · arxiv_version: 1206.0295v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.0295 · pith_short_12: 6IB5HSOKAZLR · pith_short_16: 6IB5HSOKAZLRPTDN · pith_short_8: 6IB5HSOK

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/6IB5HSOKAZLRPTDNVHOX3MNMHS \
  | 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: f203d3c9ca065717cc6da9dd7db1ac3c990fa965c5457ab87d3f7921e0b89288

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "43387ed9fe7d5f30bcd9a4fb011480d328bb346413ecbadb9f92a10405e4413c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-01T20:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32d8d8d1260d9b5a6c484dbdfd3e5f1f21c257e96c20d43571cbe940bcd7f939"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.0295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}