Pith Number

pith:LCX253GZ

pith:2004:LCX253GZ35VLI3X64EFOHU7EHN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fragmentation of a high-mass star-forming core

Henrik Beuther

arxiv:astro-ph/0408374 v1 · 2004-08-20 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LCX253GZ35VLI3X64EFOHU7EHN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:16.634518Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58afaeecd9df6ab46efee10ae3d3e43b66094d294ee79d11fc6df53e66a81858

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0408374 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0408374v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0408374 · pith_short_12: LCX253GZ35VL · pith_short_16: LCX253GZ35VLI3X6 · pith_short_8: LCX253GZ

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/LCX253GZ35VLI3X64EFOHU7EHN \
  | 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: 58afaeecd9df6ab46efee10ae3d3e43b66094d294ee79d11fc6df53e66a81858

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3155c4bdb32f5f62e5e5a01817d95197d84cd6d005632fa4fe15919592709d2f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-08-20T16:07:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6dd9e62d6eb523e08ce21cf05f8a2ea4e91681031b8bd01c6bc37878812dcf3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0408374",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}