Pith Number

pith:QSQ5X3PR

pith:2009:QSQ5X3PR4JFLLSRKQG7F3B56ZK

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The Extended Environment of M17: A Star Formation History

Barbara A. Whitney, Brian L. Babler, Craig A. Kulesa, Crystal L. Brogan, Ed Churchwell, John H. Bieging, Marilyn R. Meade, Martin Cohen, Matthew S. Povich, Miju Kang, Remy Indebetouw, Thomas P. Robitaille

arxiv:0902.3280 v1 · 2009-02-19 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QSQ5X3PR4JFLLSRKQG7F3B56ZK}

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4 Citations open

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BISTRO Survey: Gravity-Dominated and Magnetically Regulated Star Formation in M17 SW

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:29:16.431080Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84a1dbedf1e24ab5ca2a81be5d87becabace1b1739ba1f3051685d22f8e1f099

Aliases

arxiv: 0902.3280 · arxiv_version: 0902.3280v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0902.3280 · pith_short_12: QSQ5X3PR4JFL · pith_short_16: QSQ5X3PR4JFLLSRK · pith_short_8: QSQ5X3PR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QSQ5X3PR4JFLLSRKQG7F3B56ZK \
  | 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: 84a1dbedf1e24ab5ca2a81be5d87becabace1b1739ba1f3051685d22f8e1f099

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcd6e9ef83cb6de973540457010debf16d58acf5c25a5a8485ea96a9757761af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2009-02-19T01:26:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "282b356f75339f2c9be4653bc24fa152d2475d63b413e2aa928cbd22da9685c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0902.3280",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}