Pith Number

pith:CV6OKMS3

pith:2012:CV6OKMS3RJ2M6KJQTL56O5LKTT

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Ongoing Massive Star Formation in NGC 604

Bernhard Brandl, Brent Groves, Deidre Hunter, Juan R. Mart\'inez-Galarza

arxiv:1210.5537 v3 · 2012-10-19 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CV6OKMS3RJ2M6KJQTL56O5LKTT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:53:45.635215Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

157ce5325b8a74cf29309afbe7756a9cebb69a048c2226aa3f1bad5441303c25

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.5537 · arxiv_version: 1210.5537v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.5537 · pith_short_12: CV6OKMS3RJ2M · pith_short_16: CV6OKMS3RJ2M6KJQ · pith_short_8: CV6OKMS3

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/CV6OKMS3RJ2M6KJQTL56O5LKTT \
  | 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: 157ce5325b8a74cf29309afbe7756a9cebb69a048c2226aa3f1bad5441303c25

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3aa626fcd549e5acd290bae287ed614001c6ed09faae9bb89e48b674edb05cf0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-19T21:04:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de0cd35b1eb9dcaf681f578a595d8d50e996610b6cd7289a23196e18ebabe785"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.5537",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}