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pith:2006:LWZ2REKAWPLZCI2NPGSLXQ3PA4
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The Formation of Massive Stars

C. F. McKee, E. B. Churchwell, H. Beuther, J. C. Tan

arxiv:astro-ph/0602012 v2 · 2006-02-01 · astro-ph

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First computed 2026-07-04T14:52:33.849846Z
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Canonical hash

5db3a89140b3d791234d79a4bbc36f0724df5ada5b81997ed9aa207e51b893de

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arxiv: astro-ph/0602012 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0602012v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0602012 · pith_short_12: LWZ2REKAWPLZ · pith_short_16: LWZ2REKAWPLZCI2N · pith_short_8: LWZ2REKA
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LWZ2REKAWPLZCI2NPGSLXQ3PA4 \
  | 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: 5db3a89140b3d791234d79a4bbc36f0724df5ada5b81997ed9aa207e51b893de
Canonical record JSON
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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8dd442c8f7c8c01782a09ead5177d7d6a2262a591e30d7e00a534b257e465686",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-02-01T09:13:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5dc467820fa047eaae0923af3867c06fe8db5315fcf85e81f939d81eb4cc597"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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