Pith Number

pith:LVCJMHTF

pith:2011:LVCJMHTFCA4QPKKKJX2Q3KSZ6B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Star-forming Cloud Complexes in the Central Molecular Zone of NGC 253

Alison B. Peck, Kazushi Sakamoto, Martina C. Wiedner, Rui-Qing Mao, Satoki Matsushita, Tsuyoshi Sawada

arxiv:1104.2388 v1 · 2011-04-13 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LVCJMHTFCA4QPKKKJX2Q3KSZ6B}

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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	2026-05-18T02:02:32.365739Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d44961e65103907a94a4df50daa59f071fbd5a71b8d226579211dd1d848f7c2

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.2388 · arxiv_version: 1104.2388v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.2388 · pith_short_12: LVCJMHTFCA4Q · pith_short_16: LVCJMHTFCA4QPKKK · pith_short_8: LVCJMHTF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LVCJMHTFCA4QPKKKJX2Q3KSZ6B \
  | 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: 5d44961e65103907a94a4df50daa59f071fbd5a71b8d226579211dd1d848f7c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e50dd0c692de72232a95ae43c059ea7316992b9137edf4ea6c6a9b663a8b4225",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-13T06:33:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "131fc80ffb2993110177925a173a6c03022242eafbeb16e976f78f8f54b9d18b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.2388",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}