Pith Number

pith:ODVTBPI6

pith:1999:ODVTBPI6F7V7KSSYCYJTEKZ4FP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bok Globules in the LMC

B. M. Lasker, D. R. Garnett, J. R. Walsh, Y.-H. Chu

arxiv:astro-ph/9902165 v1 · 1999-02-10 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ODVTBPI6F7V7KSSYCYJTEKZ4FP}

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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	2026-07-04T16:10:42.227817Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

70eb30bd1e2febf54a581613322b3c2bffc7f1d04b8cf68dc63bd962d5c46062

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9902165 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9902165v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9902165 · pith_short_12: ODVTBPI6F7V7 · pith_short_16: ODVTBPI6F7V7KSSY · pith_short_8: ODVTBPI6

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/ODVTBPI6F7V7KSSYCYJTEKZ4FP \
  | 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: 70eb30bd1e2febf54a581613322b3c2bffc7f1d04b8cf68dc63bd962d5c46062

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4762fc4576e436d39f0a41f485723a180fb6352aed21720284038fdf290079d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-02-10T20:31:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ca4d7ae9fee1138bfd785fd36d6e0a055fa5745811a250efbc2362030f47e6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9902165",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}