Pith Number

pith:BCGG5NMD

pith:2013:BCGG5NMDHGMSAMVPMDUJSG65P5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What controls star formation in the central 500 pc of the Galaxy?

(2) ESO Garching, 3), (3) LJMU Liverpool, (4) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, (5) CITA Toronto, (6) University of Colorado, 7), (7) INAF Firenze, (8) IoA Cambridge), Bruce G. Elmegreen (4), J. M. Diederik Kruijssen (1), John Bally (6), Leonardo Testi (2, Norman Murray (5), Robert C. Kennicutt Jr. (8) ((1) MPA Garching, Steven N. Longmore (2

arxiv:1303.6286 v3 · 2013-03-25 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BCGG5NMDHGMSAMVPMDUJSG65P5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:50:53.027938Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

088c6eb58339992032af60e8991bdd7f6c6b884166b1c2a55ebddc4c0bccf649

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.6286 · arxiv_version: 1303.6286v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.6286 · pith_short_12: BCGG5NMDHGMS · pith_short_16: BCGG5NMDHGMSAMVP · pith_short_8: BCGG5NMD

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/BCGG5NMDHGMSAMVPMDUJSG65P5 \
  | 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: 088c6eb58339992032af60e8991bdd7f6c6b884166b1c2a55ebddc4c0bccf649

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9cae4bb16b06d20b0ea86b4cf27524bcde69a21eabed70c86a4ec3b6f52f548",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-25T20:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eee4a85659e0ac506e38139f704d9bf2b2ac99aa9fa733e34c7ae032c022ce7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.6286",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}