Pith Number

pith:JH3DLDUV

pith:2006:JH3DLDUVC4XJBXZHEPP5VFMCH4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Infrared Dark Clouds: precursors to star clusters

J. M. Jackson, J. M. Rathborne, R. Simon

arxiv:astro-ph/0602246 v1 · 2006-02-10 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JH3DLDUVC4XJBXZHEPP5VFMCH4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:19:41.577481Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

49f6358e95172e90df2723dfda95823f3173b31bf50c8dcd85e17bdcab5e1d0f

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0602246 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0602246v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0602246 · pith_short_12: JH3DLDUVC4XJ · pith_short_16: JH3DLDUVC4XJBXZH · pith_short_8: JH3DLDUV

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/JH3DLDUVC4XJBXZHEPP5VFMCH4 \
  | 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: 49f6358e95172e90df2723dfda95823f3173b31bf50c8dcd85e17bdcab5e1d0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ddec096cc355b475fe8c25182a70879daec2a2a9c8eb7aff348712d3297e347a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-02-10T16:28:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "384a9e36252f3f5d52cd2d08b8e5e20293eece4cee33931334cda1ef0a8feb06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0602246",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}