Pith Number

pith:HFG7MXTI

pith:2016:HFG7MXTI5U7VJFMMGPOM633566

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dust Scattering from the Taurus Molecular Cloud

Jayant Murthy, K. Narayanankutty, Sathyanarayan

arxiv:1612.05783 v1 · 2016-12-17 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HFG7MXTI5U7VJFMMGPOM633566}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:46.803104Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

394df65e68ed3f54958c33dccf6f7df7a22959fe7e229851e54335a2b4470807

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.05783 · arxiv_version: 1612.05783v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.05783 · pith_short_12: HFG7MXTI5U7V · pith_short_16: HFG7MXTI5U7VJFMM · pith_short_8: HFG7MXTI

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/HFG7MXTI5U7VJFMMGPOM633566 \
  | 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: 394df65e68ed3f54958c33dccf6f7df7a22959fe7e229851e54335a2b4470807

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95890e2045b4e58c1b0f445e9ac8f666fc8bffa8e803d37c2b86e5d57b90e9bd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-17T15:38:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "557cf407ff374203c129f16b7e637ebf502f4587bd7ce2c1ecf34db115b99a94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.05783",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}