Pith Number

pith:IEK6BSIB

pith:2005:IEK6BSIBY33JOZKAIEKP5ZWKC4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What is the temperature structure in the giant HII region NGC 588?

E. Perez, G. Stasinska, J. M. Vilchez, L. Jamet, R. M. Gonzalez Delgado

arxiv:astro-ph/0509588 v1 · 2005-09-20 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IEK6BSIBY33JOZKAIEKP5ZWKC4}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:07:30.633773Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4115e0c901c6f69765404114fee6ca1735d881fddec318886c1e5838e2492d3d

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0509588 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0509588v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0509588 · pith_short_12: IEK6BSIBY33J · pith_short_16: IEK6BSIBY33JOZKA · pith_short_8: IEK6BSIB

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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/IEK6BSIBY33JOZKAIEKP5ZWKC4 \
  | 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: 4115e0c901c6f69765404114fee6ca1735d881fddec318886c1e5838e2492d3d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d43a4fa7ded330c18aca3580d4f40718a5d75e60cd03129a45f47ee5d5b8b18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-09-20T15:01:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af67584902c70046f2fb2c16a9c727d6e38c126ff8899e457829579401aa30de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0509588",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}