Pith Number

pith:KRKXCHR6

pith:2015:KRKXCHR6INJ5NWGSAR4WBVNCJA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Signatures of star cluster formation by cold collapse

Aleksandra Kuznetsova, Javier Ballesteros-Paredes, Lee Hartmann

arxiv:1510.08478 v2 · 2015-10-28 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KRKXCHR6INJ5NWGSAR4WBVNCJA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:51.092040Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5455711e3e4353d6d8d2047960d5a24830331612acbe58fb4046dec1db21ce8b

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.08478 · arxiv_version: 1510.08478v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.08478 · pith_short_12: KRKXCHR6INJ5 · pith_short_16: KRKXCHR6INJ5NWGS · pith_short_8: KRKXCHR6

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/KRKXCHR6INJ5NWGSAR4WBVNCJA \
  | 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: 5455711e3e4353d6d8d2047960d5a24830331612acbe58fb4046dec1db21ce8b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0283327aac537c1fd8188806bd46e39e031487e19001012cc436019f33df42d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-28T20:31:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cacceb6ad23722c597051beef79bb189e5635303abc4357ddfd6f4ab645a3cc6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.08478",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}