Pith Number

pith:E5NC7K5G

pith:2013:E5NC7K5GLAIY7ZY4YRYWXXBYU5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dust-forming molecules in VY Canis Majoris (and Betelgeuse)

C.A. Gottlieb, H. S. P. Muller, J. M. Winters, K. H. Young, K. M. Menten, M. C. McCarthy, M. R. Schmidt, N. A. Patel, S. Brunken, T. Kaminski

arxiv:1302.6922 v1 · 2013-02-27 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E5NC7K5GLAIY7ZY4YRYWXXBYU5}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:51:26.602237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

275a2faba658118fe71cc4716bdc38a74ffb63547be927ade2239a7b106f9518

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.6922 · arxiv_version: 1302.6922v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.6922 · pith_short_12: E5NC7K5GLAIY · pith_short_16: E5NC7K5GLAIY7ZY4 · pith_short_8: E5NC7K5G

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/E5NC7K5GLAIY7ZY4YRYWXXBYU5 \
  | 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: 275a2faba658118fe71cc4716bdc38a74ffb63547be927ade2239a7b106f9518

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3fcf7ad288d13e81fd4ca298624d14d7d4d41ac0c9bf59154ab2f4cf87ce3557",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-27T16:58:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d46d9edeb0e0baf7b8bb0f9152560febd841d07cc7d06f013dc095abfc881710"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.6922",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}