Pith Number

pith:LDCYUM2T

pith:2011:LDCYUM2TFAJBFUBG7ITOAG6H5K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A 100-parsec elliptical and twisted ring of cold and dense molecular clouds revealed by Herschel around the Galactic Center

A.M. di Giorgio, A. Noriega-Crespo, A. Traficante, A. Zavagno, B. Swinyard, C. Battersby, D. Elia, D. Paradis, D. Polychroni, D. Ward-Thompson, E. Schisano, F. Faustini, F. Motte, F. Piacentini, F. Schuller, G. Polenta, G.S. Stringfellow, G. Umana, G. White, J. Bally, J.C. Tan, J.P. Bernard, J.Z. Li, L. Calzoletti, L. Morgan, L. Testi, M. A. Thompson, M. Barlow, M. Burton, M. Compi\`egne, M. Pestalozzi, M. Veneziani, P. Martin, P. Natoli, R. Plume, S. Carey, S.D. Lord, S. Molinari, S. Pezzuto, T. Moore, Y. Fukui

arxiv:1105.5486 v1 · 2011-05-27 · astro-ph.GA

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:01:47.427962Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58c58a3353281212d026fa26e01bc7eaba1837cbe3684f44515f7149a42be201

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.5486 · arxiv_version: 1105.5486v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.5486 · pith_short_12: LDCYUM2TFAJB · pith_short_16: LDCYUM2TFAJBFUBG · pith_short_8: LDCYUM2T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LDCYUM2TFAJBFUBG7ITOAG6H5K \
  | 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: 58c58a3353281212d026fa26e01bc7eaba1837cbe3684f44515f7149a42be201

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed63abab4aea6c8e5633157ee9c19ad7850e6bf3d99a1a4ca078329e8ecaab7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-27T07:21:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8bd1f282333dd242516d8630bc33c1f03d4d018c826e9057119dcc4edf0ec781"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.5486",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}