Pith Number

pith:B4BM64RT

pith:2016:B4BM64RT5BBCILTNVCSELG7ZZY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Star formation rates on global and cloud scales within the Galactic Centre

Ashley Thomas Barnes, Cara Battersby, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, John Bally, Steven Longmore

arxiv:1609.08478 v1 · 2016-09-27 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B4BM64RT5BBCILTNVCSELG7ZZY}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

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✓ 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	2026-05-18T00:50:18.858137Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f02cf7233e842242e6da8a4459bf9ce1ede5ae4643e41dcf13a15aea121e4a2

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.08478 · arxiv_version: 1609.08478v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.08478 · pith_short_12: B4BM64RT5BBC · pith_short_16: B4BM64RT5BBCILTN · pith_short_8: B4BM64RT

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/B4BM64RT5BBCILTNVCSELG7ZZY \
  | 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: 0f02cf7233e842242e6da8a4459bf9ce1ede5ae4643e41dcf13a15aea121e4a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e4d03021a42432f63fd7b7f7d3bfe4d872b4f76e5659cd0ec9cbde0539b20dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-27T14:39:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "badb5eee17870278d2466ad700a9e7e5f6df23074cf9f633e834888812e96dce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.08478",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}