Pith Number

pith:AKMN4WAS

pith:2016:AKMN4WASH7TGQ423YRP3QWM5UG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evidence that widespread star formation may be underway in G0.253+016, "The Brick"

A.P. Whitworth, K.A. Marsh, P.C. Clark, S.E. Ragan

arxiv:1604.07609 v1 · 2016-04-26 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AKMN4WASH7TGQ423YRP3QWM5UG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:12.005523Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0298de58123fe668735bc45fb8599da1ba4b8d2a57655002aa9b57ce58ac78b8

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.07609 · arxiv_version: 1604.07609v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.07609 · pith_short_12: AKMN4WASH7TG · pith_short_16: AKMN4WASH7TGQ423 · pith_short_8: AKMN4WAS

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/AKMN4WASH7TGQ423YRP3QWM5UG \
  | 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: 0298de58123fe668735bc45fb8599da1ba4b8d2a57655002aa9b57ce58ac78b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d847a7d8e08d62131bbeee903f1d26253f1cf184fc1bae9cb9f9311ede7015bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-26T10:33:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d209cc42aa111c6b2d1fa39fadf02b7a3bc154628d18b93fd79611bfd93d8632"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.07609",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}