Pith Number

pith:F6KR2RRY

pith:2017:F6KR2RRYTKIBUXMFHKKGQGSNOR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fast Molecular Cloud Destruction Requires Fast Cloud Formation

Andreas Burkert (USM, Juan C. Ib\'a\~nez-Mej\'ia (Uni. K\"oln, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (AMNH), MPE)

arxiv:1706.09561 v3 · 2017-06-29 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F6KR2RRYTKIBUXMFHKKGQGSNOR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:49.336288Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f951d46389a901a5d853a94681a4d747a3151af8d93e80fe986761835b58498

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.09561 · arxiv_version: 1706.09561v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.09561 · pith_short_12: F6KR2RRYTKIB · pith_short_16: F6KR2RRYTKIBUXMF · pith_short_8: F6KR2RRY

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/F6KR2RRYTKIBUXMFHKKGQGSNOR \
  | 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: 2f951d46389a901a5d853a94681a4d747a3151af8d93e80fe986761835b58498

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d733f6bb756470f89adfa323b3a2ef2555bbae963547b4f3077e9bd07d68ddac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-29T03:18:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36b805e5e2c1c0fda8d652172787aa87b43464b8a9e7011fde1e7be6608a126e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.09561",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}