Pith Number

pith:KCGXJSEA

pith:2018:KCGXJSEAU2TUYD55OU2QT2I24N

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A universal route for the formation of massive star clusters in giant molecular clouds

Corey S. Howard, Ralph E. Pudritz, William E. Harris

arxiv:1808.07080 v1 · 2018-08-21 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KCGXJSEAU2TUYD55OU2QT2I24N}

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:31.985460Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

508d74c880a6a74c0fbd753509e91ae366691a45d88d951458ff89bda8028430

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.07080 · arxiv_version: 1808.07080v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.07080 · pith_short_12: KCGXJSEAU2TU · pith_short_16: KCGXJSEAU2TUYD55 · pith_short_8: KCGXJSEA

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/KCGXJSEAU2TUYD55OU2QT2I24N \
  | 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: 508d74c880a6a74c0fbd753509e91ae366691a45d88d951458ff89bda8028430

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2adca2f20e70130d2e107c1edb5d164e6772ec5c861e2fc228ac80b97577b7ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-21T18:42:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6186c4b70f0cd9efc158f9aa0432f99f4b9b46112f6abba2482986ebb82418cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.07080",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}