Pith Number

pith:NH54R5XM

pith:2004:NH54R5XMJ4OBKFZLMDV2EF6AFV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Thermal Physics, Cloud Geometry, and the Stellar IMF

Richard B. Larson

arxiv:astro-ph/0412357 v2 · 2004-12-15 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NH54R5XMJ4OBKFZLMDV2EF6AFV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:23:00.660245Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69fbc8f6ec4f1c15172b60eba217c02d613715817a72c444d6e19defb1299352

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0412357 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0412357v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0412357 · pith_short_12: NH54R5XMJ4OB · pith_short_16: NH54R5XMJ4OBKFZL · pith_short_8: NH54R5XM

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/NH54R5XMJ4OBKFZLMDV2EF6AFV \
  | 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: 69fbc8f6ec4f1c15172b60eba217c02d613715817a72c444d6e19defb1299352

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65ce9649d2e001db7c7ff3b37d5869c7eb1d1b2c1f190db42c57f2eb7e06cf96",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-12-15T18:44:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d6c83279ae510cc217b2602b88882e0ba67a873432eba299d139d5b66d123331"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0412357",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}