Pith Number

pith:MFRNCASX

pith:2017:MFRNCASX3RQF3ZBTSJEOMBNRLR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The HI Chronicles of LITTLE THINGS BCDS III: Gas Clouds in and around Mrk 178, VII Zw 403, AND NGC 3738

Bruce G. Elmegreen, Caroline E. Simpson, Megan Johnson, Nau Raj Pokhrel, Trisha Ashley

arxiv:1701.08169 v1 · 2017-01-27 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MFRNCASX3RQF3ZBTSJEOMBNRLR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:09.455742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6162d10257dc605de4339248e605b15c6ca77fcaf35f7487c1caa28c9cc18876

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.08169 · arxiv_version: 1701.08169v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.08169 · pith_short_12: MFRNCASX3RQF · pith_short_16: MFRNCASX3RQF3ZBT · pith_short_8: MFRNCASX

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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/MFRNCASX3RQF3ZBTSJEOMBNRLR \
  | 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: 6162d10257dc605de4339248e605b15c6ca77fcaf35f7487c1caa28c9cc18876

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6149ff08b540e2bbb8527e89a595825dd6cad09eb4780eacb2c7e518be5495be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-27T19:01:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3cb221183809b337426ca941cbec531ab6909209f5c07ef6ae1b5801b32845e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.08169",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}