Pith Number

pith:MSJTXRFY

pith:1999:MSJTXRFYKUKTH66GJPGOJQATK5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Atomic Carbon Is a Temperature Probe in Dark Clouds

D. T. Jaffe, J. Keene, K. Tatematsu, N. J. Evans II, R. Plume

arxiv:astro-ph/9906284 v1 · 1999-06-17 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MSJTXRFYKUKTH66GJPGOJQATK5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T16:11:19.765743Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64933bc4b8551533fbc64bcce4c013576b2e06263bf86b3cd466cb6ca5d360c5

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9906284 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9906284v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906284 · pith_short_12: MSJTXRFYKUKT · pith_short_16: MSJTXRFYKUKTH66G · pith_short_8: MSJTXRFY

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/MSJTXRFYKUKTH66GJPGOJQATK5 \
  | 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: 64933bc4b8551533fbc64bcce4c013576b2e06263bf86b3cd466cb6ca5d360c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f0854fb695318e4c976080f3fec397d844028972bebffac7a456a8d43ca754a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-06-17T01:09:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1bb2d21c3f0fe50772a367c06e6bf78a4236f16a23b563be26791514bb2946bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9906284",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}