Pith Number

pith:LNU6RMZO

pith:2002:LNU6RMZO6CMSAI2XS5ZSJ2IVHS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Embedded Star Formation in the Eagle Nebula

Bradford A. Smith, J. Jeff Hester, Rodger I. Thompson

arxiv:astro-ph/0201292 v1 · 2002-01-17 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LNU6RMZO6CMSAI2XS5ZSJ2IVHS}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:32:44.529590Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b69e8b32ef099202357977324e9153cadf888d5252dcea64f69e2ccd982a85f

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0201292 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0201292v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0201292 · pith_short_12: LNU6RMZO6CMS · pith_short_16: LNU6RMZO6CMSAI2X · pith_short_8: LNU6RMZO

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/LNU6RMZO6CMSAI2XS5ZSJ2IVHS \
  | 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: 5b69e8b32ef099202357977324e9153cadf888d5252dcea64f69e2ccd982a85f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e97dd551854d24e50bda1e768af8f5a62a475f6a4a5ad9df98aa4c6355684b43",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-01-17T16:48:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32315bde67a75c20e3281d36feb24e7d4d4fa6e15d68b5cd80971fb6ec884cda"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0201292",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}