Pith Number

pith:BX5FY2PV

pith:2012:BX5FY2PVAPOMWO5HMCMOAEXQNU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey VIII. Multiplicity properties of the O-type star population

A. de Koter, A. Herrero, C. J. Evans, D. J. Lennon, H. Sana, J. Maiz Apellaniz, J. S. Clark, J. S. Vink, M. Gieles, N. Langer, N. R. Walborn, O. H. Ramirez-Agudelo, P. A. Crowther, P. R. Dunstall, S. E. de Mink, V. Henault-Brunet, W. D. Taylor

arxiv:1209.4638 v1 · 2012-09-20 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BX5FY2PVAPOMWO5HMCMOAEXQNU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:54:20.503703Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0dfa5c69f503dccb3ba76098e012f06d0a1d4431fd2a29b436bf5db72f781d4e

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.4638 · arxiv_version: 1209.4638v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.4638 · pith_short_12: BX5FY2PVAPOM · pith_short_16: BX5FY2PVAPOMWO5H · pith_short_8: BX5FY2PV

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/BX5FY2PVAPOMWO5HMCMOAEXQNU \
  | 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: 0dfa5c69f503dccb3ba76098e012f06d0a1d4431fd2a29b436bf5db72f781d4e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f9c0126ef40433569688df8868b6eb85ebffb782c9b9746ead3268a0735d1dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-20T20:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "594926d15cbcc13f3d0baef4bea58760ba91712ed72f3f03163d44b4806548f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.4638",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}