Pith Number

pith:BHC5J3KZ

pith:2012:BHC5J3KZBTXF4KC3QHB2IYIZSD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tearing the Veil: interaction of the Orion Nebula with its neutral environment

C. R. O'Dell, Paul P. van der Werf, W. M. Goss

arxiv:1211.0470 v1 · 2012-11-02 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BHC5J3KZBTXF4KC3QHB2IYIZSD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:53:26.573342Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09c5d4ed590cee5e285b81c3a4611990c74fdcb410686670d57d0aba298de559

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.0470 · arxiv_version: 1211.0470v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.0470 · pith_short_12: BHC5J3KZBTXF · pith_short_16: BHC5J3KZBTXF4KC3 · pith_short_8: BHC5J3KZ

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/BHC5J3KZBTXF4KC3QHB2IYIZSD \
  | 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: 09c5d4ed590cee5e285b81c3a4611990c74fdcb410686670d57d0aba298de559

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c7154b12a2fd191d9312d8113fd88bec7d30d0a5767e2275bb414d3f183ccf9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-02T15:27:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9027a88243fd9634023b6813cafd1e42e9f48f3125b17fc6ede933d55312a13c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.0470",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}