Pith Number

pith:BG2QBD7D

pith:2017:BG2QBD7DVPAUDVEY3ETBDHF25W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Persistence of Population III Star Formation

Jordan Mirocha, Richard H. Mebane, Steven R. Furlanetto

arxiv:1710.02528 v1 · 2017-10-06 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BG2QBD7DVPAUDVEY3ETBDHF25W}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:30.651013Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09b5008fe3abc141d498d926119cbaed9b6246af36e75b03cd157cb93fa14059

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.02528 · arxiv_version: 1710.02528v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.02528 · pith_short_12: BG2QBD7DVPAU · pith_short_16: BG2QBD7DVPAUDVEY · pith_short_8: BG2QBD7D

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/BG2QBD7DVPAUDVEY3ETBDHF25W \
  | 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: 09b5008fe3abc141d498d926119cbaed9b6246af36e75b03cd157cb93fa14059

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9dc3963b15b7e84e480213f37b414069a194f2e84c2adb645b682837cb8c2e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-06T18:00:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "780891ec46b78143289b4285c04f459fa46257f9588b2a9b145809f8b6eaccd1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.02528",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}