Pith Number

pith:7DWTAKL4

pith:2002:7DWTAKL4VNVDWWM5V4QKPEEB3C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Galactic Distribution of Large HI Shells

(2) U of Minnesota, (3) CfA, (4) U of Sydney), A. J. Green (4) ((1) ATNF, B. M. Gaensler (3), John M. Dickey (2), N. M. McClure-Griffiths (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/0206358 v1 · 2002-06-20 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7DWTAKL4VNVDWWM5V4QKPEEB3C}

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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	2026-07-04T16:30:15.041493Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f8ed30297cab6a3b599daf20a79081d8acea0a684026368a2561bab1202ce9f2

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0206358 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0206358v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0206358 · pith_short_12: 7DWTAKL4VNVD · pith_short_16: 7DWTAKL4VNVDWWM5 · pith_short_8: 7DWTAKL4

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/7DWTAKL4VNVDWWM5V4QKPEEB3C \
  | 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: f8ed30297cab6a3b599daf20a79081d8acea0a684026368a2561bab1202ce9f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1543e1b4e43c38303092c9be5412a2f30c4f3f6c9e115546bccd017144c6d3c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-06-20T12:48:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd63d9aa955455eb307b6b38810d7e598dc37ca6e926aa9792e58d26a26d2cdc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0206358",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}