Pith Number

pith:I3W3ATJX

pith:2011:I3W3ATJXXU6PQERWA3T2PMDJMO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Volume Density Thresholds for Overall Star Formation imply Mass-Size Thresholds for Massive Star Formation

2), (2) AIfA, (3) JPL, (4) Caltech), Bonn, Genevieve Parmentier (1, Jens Kauffmann (3), Karl M. Menten (1) ((1) MPI fuer Radioastronomie, Thushara Pillai (4)

arxiv:1106.1173 v1 · 2011-06-06 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I3W3ATJXXU6PQERWA3T2PMDJMO}

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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	2026-05-18T02:01:41.582668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46edb04d37bd3cf8123606e7a7b06963a36a45a91eb71b0ded57b69e88e27036

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.1173 · arxiv_version: 1106.1173v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.1173 · pith_short_12: I3W3ATJXXU6P · pith_short_16: I3W3ATJXXU6PQERW · pith_short_8: I3W3ATJX

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I3W3ATJXXU6PQERWA3T2PMDJMO \
  | 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: 46edb04d37bd3cf8123606e7a7b06963a36a45a91eb71b0ded57b69e88e27036

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01c12048e2f7cf6b519811df7a1b8bb62828e0e376040f13f2bf7554bc47a507",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-06T20:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9285a860bdcb3cb78933e7b4680d07a04077acfde603885574045edec6db399"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.1173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}