Pith Number

pith:6ZSDNB37

pith:2017:6ZSDNB37TUO6RRXMX7SACHCLXD

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No preferential spatial distribution for massive stars expected from their formation

(2) University of Hertfordshire, James E. Dale (2) ((1) University of Sheffield, Richard J. Parker (1), UK, UK)

arxiv:1705.04686 v1 · 2017-05-12 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{6ZSDNB37TUO6RRXMX7SACHCLXD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:41:32.688175Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f66436877f9d1de8c6ecbfe4011c4bb8e1073e548129469b938dfb97129fe020

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.04686 · arxiv_version: 1705.04686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.04686 · pith_short_12: 6ZSDNB37TUO6 · pith_short_16: 6ZSDNB37TUO6RRXM · pith_short_8: 6ZSDNB37

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6ZSDNB37TUO6RRXMX7SACHCLXD \
  | 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: f66436877f9d1de8c6ecbfe4011c4bb8e1073e548129469b938dfb97129fe020

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "60481bff345b81c0538d41048d2774fff20afeaf553140613955dc59468b8b9a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-12T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d3bf73e18d81c576583c4c9bc8ad14f033320d426af112a05a88cef6451647f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.04686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}