Pith Number

pith:QGVKORMM

pith:2012:QGVKORMMRE6O5GSLX2ZZV6NWHN

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Advances in understanding young high-mass stars using optical interferometry

W. J. de Wit (ESO)

arxiv:1205.0473 v1 · 2012-05-02 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QGVKORMMRE6O5GSLX2ZZV6NWHN}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:56:34.455297Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

81aaa7458c893cee9a4bbeb39af9b63b40def76e983886c1f8372cfe1860f3a8

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0473 · arxiv_version: 1205.0473v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0473 · pith_short_12: QGVKORMMRE6O · pith_short_16: QGVKORMMRE6O5GSL · pith_short_8: QGVKORMM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QGVKORMMRE6O5GSLX2ZZV6NWHN \
  | 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: 81aaa7458c893cee9a4bbeb39af9b63b40def76e983886c1f8372cfe1860f3a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4583bf36231fbcc08dc7301ed1a535056dd37dae448c1183feae058abcd9fde2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-02T15:52:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6da8893d25ebac5858159a2ac6ad7a34e6567e6970666d5be58e593d31e02973"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0473",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}