Pith Number

pith:BKQIPWCY

pith:2014:BKQIPWCYGG7ENCYEN4R3VEEAGF

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Modeling Grain Alignment by Radiative Torques and Hydrogen Formation Torques in Reflection Nebula

A Lazarian, B-G Andersson, Thiem Hoang

arxiv:1412.0424 v2 · 2014-12-01 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BKQIPWCYGG7ENCYEN4R3VEEAGF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:41:24.654060Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0aa087d85831be468b046f23ba9080315bdab24380615ca7c3467f394c6a6157

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.0424 · arxiv_version: 1412.0424v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.0424 · pith_short_12: BKQIPWCYGG7E · pith_short_16: BKQIPWCYGG7ENCYE · pith_short_8: BKQIPWCY

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/BKQIPWCYGG7ENCYEN4R3VEEAGF \
  | 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: 0aa087d85831be468b046f23ba9080315bdab24380615ca7c3467f394c6a6157

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0c33252e17d9d2372f0516852ba0432473ef32b14e0a475d2f51739f0bc0659",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-01T11:05:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a458194e2f5c45686b2027063edc1504283de33d8beb9bf63907d468f2bf5c1f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.0424",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}