Pith Number

pith:BXOBSUZA

pith:2017:BXOBSUZANY3FO7QX4KFR6LRTYX

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Hydrogen in diffuse molecular clouds in the Milky Way: Atomic column densities and molecular fraction along prominent lines of sight

A. Brunthaler, B. Winkel, D. Neufeld, F. Wyrowski, H. Wiesemeyer, K. M. Menten, M. Gerin, M. Sato, N. Indriolo

arxiv:1702.05956 v1 · 2017-02-20 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BXOBSUZANY3FO7QX4KFR6LRTYX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:24.783921Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ddc1953206e36577e17e28b1f2e33c5d9f2c458017f15805b676a6805edbbbf

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05956 · arxiv_version: 1702.05956v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05956 · pith_short_12: BXOBSUZANY3F · pith_short_16: BXOBSUZANY3FO7QX · pith_short_8: BXOBSUZA

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/BXOBSUZANY3FO7QX4KFR6LRTYX \
  | 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: 0ddc1953206e36577e17e28b1f2e33c5d9f2c458017f15805b676a6805edbbbf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc970d27f3185400fff732392ac533930d68dfe22224ccc60d8b1c7ebefe1de6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-20T13:05:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7d44aceb4755ef61721fad773d0524fc1ca285328c366edbf942a78f1245c5c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05956",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}