Pith Number

pith:B6C3OZVT

pith:2008:B6C3OZVT4NI6EXUGT4XMQ4V4NN

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The very slow expansion of an ultracold plasma formed in a seeded supersonic molecular beam of NO

C. J. Rennick, E. R. Grant, J. P. Morrison

arxiv:0812.4051 v2 · 2008-12-21 · physics.chem-ph · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B6C3OZVT4NI6EXUGT4XMQ4V4NN}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T02:15:04.106004Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f85b766b3e351e25e869f2ec872bc6b565edab26fafdb6df983e91f878cfbc5

Aliases

arxiv: 0812.4051 · arxiv_version: 0812.4051v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0812.4051 · pith_short_12: B6C3OZVT4NI6 · pith_short_16: B6C3OZVT4NI6EXUG · pith_short_8: B6C3OZVT

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/B6C3OZVT4NI6EXUGT4XMQ4V4NN \
  | 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: 0f85b766b3e351e25e869f2ec872bc6b565edab26fafdb6df983e91f878cfbc5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a331b7cc86e7d6df16c34d94283fa57275932ac6167f3c90908b29eb5d10c06a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.plasm-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.chem-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-12-21T19:19:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d19d238fe9dddff12a67ed88a5223fd8fe8f8cdfa974dcdcf842e70861745611"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0812.4051",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}