Pith Number

pith:BTCF7QU4

pith:2019:BTCF7QU4AOIX2RTLQJ3XAMBKCL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Star Formation Stochasticity Measured from the Distribution of Burst Indicators

Adam Broussard, Camilla Pacifici, Eric Gawiser, Intae Jung, Kartheik Iyer, Peter Kurczynski, Rachel S. Somerville, Romeel Dav\'e, Steve Finkelstein

arxiv:1901.01192 v2 · 2019-01-04 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BTCF7QU4AOIX2RTLQJ3XAMBKCL}

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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	2026-05-17T23:50:06.562102Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cc45fc29c03917d466b827770302a12e9a03b5577927bf1f931fe50c0abec34

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.01192 · arxiv_version: 1901.01192v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.01192 · pith_short_12: BTCF7QU4AOIX · pith_short_16: BTCF7QU4AOIX2RTL · pith_short_8: BTCF7QU4

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/BTCF7QU4AOIX2RTLQJ3XAMBKCL \
  | 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: 0cc45fc29c03917d466b827770302a12e9a03b5577927bf1f931fe50c0abec34

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b8b13b0d1ffddcb46a688996e27c12e2fb89d63bc23ef25c6a54d60f00fd286",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-04T16:23:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9f36ae8123826ca3c7c61db79d8f157340e8bfd2cc7375f245adc996281ca41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.01192",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}