Pith Number

pith:OUZSDADG

pith:2012:OUZSDADG4J3YAP2AIDWRKASQVW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An 80 pc Long Massive Molecular Filament in the Galactic Mid-Plane

Cara Battersby, John Bally

arxiv:1208.4608 v1 · 2012-08-22 · astro-ph.GA

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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	2026-05-18T01:53:27.494189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7533218066e277803f4040ed150250ad8814ea0384ca9e8a669541b1f141ade4

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4608 · arxiv_version: 1208.4608v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4608 · pith_short_12: OUZSDADG4J3Y · pith_short_16: OUZSDADG4J3YAP2A · pith_short_8: OUZSDADG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OUZSDADG4J3YAP2AIDWRKASQVW \
  | 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: 7533218066e277803f4040ed150250ad8814ea0384ca9e8a669541b1f141ade4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5197587f4487011d810f20de9d5a975afbfa9e4889e614c94adf0b949d250a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-22T20:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95cead66c1a18570e1a10265a4d7a65e67f7e3b54281093af418a02fb46d8a73"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4608",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}