Pith Number

pith:6OVZQIVD

pith:2012:6OVZQIVDJK63UPCT57ECG7J6JH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Lesser Role of Shear in Star Formation: Insight from the Galactic Ring Survey

(3) JMU, (4) MPIfR, Ali Dariush (2) ((1) Imperial College London (2) IPAC, Bonn), Caltech, George Helou (2), James Urquhart (4), Liverpool, Sami Dib (1), Toby Moore (3)

arxiv:1202.4699 v4 · 2012-02-21 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6OVZQIVDJK63UPCT57ECG7J6JH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:22.767558Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3ab9822a34abdba3c53efc8237d3e49d9296307163eaa0c7d123ee6a430b747

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.4699 · arxiv_version: 1202.4699v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.4699 · pith_short_12: 6OVZQIVDJK63 · pith_short_16: 6OVZQIVDJK63UPCT · pith_short_8: 6OVZQIVD

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/6OVZQIVDJK63UPCT57ECG7J6JH \
  | 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: f3ab9822a34abdba3c53efc8237d3e49d9296307163eaa0c7d123ee6a430b747

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79a464f45f8f6b1bf99ff01e403f368a17cdaf4c3a56a3eaed11d4613f1fcae8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-21T16:59:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d0c2d7f5f907604489e7786b857af3f84a3b25a82ba855fddf1b9c101c0ae26"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.4699",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}