Pith Number

pith:BKOP325S

pith:2002:BKOP325S3VHAYH4GPRKWT7ZZRY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Active star formation in N11B Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud: a sequential star formation scenario confirmed

Jorge Garcia, Miguel R. Roth, Monica Rubio, Rodolfo H. Barba

arxiv:astro-ph/0212525 v1 · 2002-12-23 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BKOP325S3VHAYH4GPRKWT7ZZRY}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:14:08.891977Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a9cfdebb2dd4e0c1f867c5569ff398e179281e5ac4d7dad5a3e757d18fd0b9b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0212525 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0212525v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0212525 · pith_short_12: BKOP325S3VHA · pith_short_16: BKOP325S3VHAYH4G · pith_short_8: BKOP325S

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/BKOP325S3VHAYH4GPRKWT7ZZRY \
  | 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: 0a9cfdebb2dd4e0c1f867c5569ff398e179281e5ac4d7dad5a3e757d18fd0b9b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "904a7052aedc88b523267c6f50aeed2b3137b8cac2edb7eaaa179d6c62b93c41",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-12-23T14:39:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85855f68b34ff3b599cc92be9423e9408546fb385955fe5a48968a0862ac4b71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0212525",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}