Pith Number

pith:GA45AV5Y

pith:2017:GA45AV5YIEX3GMNVC7T7A32JK4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Accelerating Pace of Star Formation

Philip Chang, Spencer Caldwell

arxiv:1711.07512 v1 · 2017-11-20 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GA45AV5YIEX3GMNVC7T7A32JK4}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:26:23.816247Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3039d057b8412fb331b517e7f06f4957079a0bbbd812d3fbfc82baf304ccd493

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.07512 · arxiv_version: 1711.07512v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.07512 · pith_short_12: GA45AV5YIEX3 · pith_short_16: GA45AV5YIEX3GMNV · pith_short_8: GA45AV5Y

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/GA45AV5YIEX3GMNVC7T7A32JK4 \
  | 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: 3039d057b8412fb331b517e7f06f4957079a0bbbd812d3fbfc82baf304ccd493

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e9523b7289032e2a7a3eccd0a589c9c2bb97449f2649157f800425d2a1efd06",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-20T19:42:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b2bcfb19f8a86a149a2b132f67e7bfccabc18b36e549ef948044296a8cabe60"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.07512",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}