Pith Number

pith:MRYIKU55

pith:2000:MRYIKU55ZHPXEGSTW4ZYGNFA2Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Formation of Molecular Gas in the debris of violent Galaxy Interactions

Jonathan Braine, Pierre-Alain Duc, Stephane Leon, Ute Lisenfeld

arxiv:astro-ph/0002177 v1 · 2000-02-08 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MRYIKU55ZHPXEGSTW4ZYGNFA2Z}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:44:46.509264Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64708553bdc9df721a53b7338334a0d67ffee3dbfad00bc0e6825dc1a4795f92

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0002177 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0002177v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0002177 · pith_short_12: MRYIKU55ZHPX · pith_short_16: MRYIKU55ZHPXEGST · pith_short_8: MRYIKU55

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/MRYIKU55ZHPXEGSTW4ZYGNFA2Z \
  | 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: 64708553bdc9df721a53b7338334a0d67ffee3dbfad00bc0e6825dc1a4795f92

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "452bc631933bc5f08ffaac1e1b348424d7b2af59636592e6c3db10f21aa309b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-02-08T14:59:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73871ef2a91f44caed5f2c5889bdc9b8d370cc4e435fea881d714aac2186722e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0002177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}