Pith Number

pith:HBX3OFX4

pith:1998:HBX3OFX4UAOWO7JWSPSCY5KSMJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

OH(1720 MHz) Masers As Signposts of Molecular Shocks

Dale A. Frail, George F. Mitchell

arxiv:astro-ph/9807011 v1 · 1998-07-01 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HBX3OFX4UAOWO7JWSPSCY5KSMJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-07-04T16:06:49.610612Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

386fb716fca01d677d3693e42c7552625827fc64927b6e27e60148a1cee04bff

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9807011 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9807011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9807011 · pith_short_12: HBX3OFX4UAOW · pith_short_16: HBX3OFX4UAOWO7JW · pith_short_8: HBX3OFX4

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/HBX3OFX4UAOWO7JWSPSCY5KSMJ \
  | 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: 386fb716fca01d677d3693e42c7552625827fc64927b6e27e60148a1cee04bff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "726bc0e93652869935dbd41c14b28ef4a3e333478314524bb0dde452c40d98ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-01T20:32:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1e5344bcfcee16a712cd95eb67227bf47f9c007c6e181e9fcfafa8ef2b22c71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9807011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}