Pith Number

pith:PBKEXX6A

pith:2016:PBKEXX6ANHMRND5FDXIC5BZJG4

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Molecular cloud formation in high-shear, magnetized colliding flows

Adam Frank, Christina Haig, Erica Fogerty, Fabian Heitsch, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, Marissa Adams

arxiv:1602.01417 v2 · 2016-02-01 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PBKEXX6ANHMRND5FDXIC5BZJG4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:13:23.697710Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78544bdfc069d9168fa51dd02e8729370eacce6391578ceb807da80ee5b77560

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.01417 · arxiv_version: 1602.01417v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.01417 · pith_short_12: PBKEXX6ANHMR · pith_short_16: PBKEXX6ANHMRND5F · pith_short_8: PBKEXX6A

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/PBKEXX6ANHMRND5FDXIC5BZJG4 \
  | 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: 78544bdfc069d9168fa51dd02e8729370eacce6391578ceb807da80ee5b77560

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7987e3e36032779cdb67920ded485c4091587eb951438f0984f20551c21f3b73",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-01T21:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "386771c7d6cd395abece6193e3e6a6fa29aaac2b1fd104c6241608fefba4226b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.01417",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}