Pith Number

pith:PVSKFXNK

pith:2014:PVSKFXNKNYACLL7BZ42MZL55HS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Massive stars in the giant molecular cloud G23.3-0.3 and W41

Ben Davies (Liverpool John Moores University), Christine Trombley (RIT), Donald F. Figer (RIT), John W. MacKenty (Space Telescope Science Institute), J. Simon Clark (The Open University), Karl M. Menten (MPIfR), Maria Messineo (MPIfR), R. Michael Rich (University of California), Rolf-Peter Kudritzki (University of Hawaii), Valentin D. Ivanov (ESO)

arxiv:1408.3558 v1 · 2014-08-14 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PVSKFXNKNYACLL7BZ42MZL55HS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:18.584741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d64a2ddaa6e0025afe1cf34ccafbd3cb562d0de81e390793c56ee967c14ef0e

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.3558 · arxiv_version: 1408.3558v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.3558 · pith_short_12: PVSKFXNKNYAC · pith_short_16: PVSKFXNKNYACLL7B · pith_short_8: PVSKFXNK

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/PVSKFXNKNYACLL7BZ42MZL55HS \
  | 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: 7d64a2ddaa6e0025afe1cf34ccafbd3cb562d0de81e390793c56ee967c14ef0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc8e1daddc7e6b87e408029a0178619ca595d1c4265cc8af6e15026845d75b09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-14T17:27:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0242f992a84ce1c05e67c95e5270b7c735343f2398c164d150149f58b1f67ad7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.3558",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}