Pith Number

pith:LHGM3HJD

pith:2018:LHGM3HJDLC54PYQVLV5LIKUIYS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dissecting the Core of the Tarantula Nebula with MUSE

Chris Evans (UKATC), Fernando Selman (ESO), Jorge Melnick (ESO), Jorick Vink (Armagh), Norberto Castro (Michigan), Paul A Crowther (Sheffield)

arxiv:1801.00855 v1 · 2018-01-02 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LHGM3HJDLC54PYQVLV5LIKUIYS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:48.575229Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

59cccd9d2358bbc7e2155d7ab42a88c4b519b8c50d80a6fe2e890cfe53741bf9

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.00855 · arxiv_version: 1801.00855v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.00855 · pith_short_12: LHGM3HJDLC54 · pith_short_16: LHGM3HJDLC54PYQV · pith_short_8: LHGM3HJD

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/LHGM3HJDLC54PYQVLV5LIKUIYS \
  | 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: 59cccd9d2358bbc7e2155d7ab42a88c4b519b8c50d80a6fe2e890cfe53741bf9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f57ed8a05f294e8b44850a9478bf5a52362a371bbe24e73e38e2b48772a4c7d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-02T23:10:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "006fd997565199a734b74b99b240f8ef9f66ffd36e7e831cf8915d5ae8ee9abe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.00855",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}