Pith Number

pith:ATJQLDQV

pith:2016:ATJQLDQVHT6UVQAS34RXBV74XW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Massive Star Formation in the LMC. I. N159 and N160 Complexes

L. Andrew Helton, Michael S. Gordon, Robert D. Gehrz, Terry J. Jones

arxiv:1611.09257 v1 · 2016-11-23 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ATJQLDQVHT6UVQAS34RXBV74XW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:37.580622Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04d3058e153cfd4ac012df2370d7fcbd89518beed80dfb7017a43992b837e2cc

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.09257 · arxiv_version: 1611.09257v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.09257 · pith_short_12: ATJQLDQVHT6U · pith_short_16: ATJQLDQVHT6UVQAS · pith_short_8: ATJQLDQV

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/ATJQLDQVHT6UVQAS34RXBV74XW \
  | 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: 04d3058e153cfd4ac012df2370d7fcbd89518beed80dfb7017a43992b837e2cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e08f9de09132784363b34cb60d4b81166d926c2de1944839b4c06f5848b721f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-23T21:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ffac5f607ec7a93bcb3319a4e5438893d71fe6ea24901cb4c02bcda348dcbf81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.09257",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}