Pith Number

pith:RIIARRQ7

pith:1997:RIIARRQ7FOGV3PMMWCZNQFKLBS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Observations of ground-state OH in the Large Magellanic Cloud

J. B. Whiteoak, K. J. Brooks

arxiv:astro-ph/9710172 v1 · 1997-10-16 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RIIARRQ7FOGV3PMMWCZNQFKLBS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:16.614424Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a1008c61f2b8d5dbd8cb0b2d8154b0ca76f5a6f838ec2d73287e95edf563604

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9710172 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9710172v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9710172 · pith_short_12: RIIARRQ7FOGV · pith_short_16: RIIARRQ7FOGV3PMM · pith_short_8: RIIARRQ7

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/RIIARRQ7FOGV3PMMWCZNQFKLBS \
  | 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: 8a1008c61f2b8d5dbd8cb0b2d8154b0ca76f5a6f838ec2d73287e95edf563604

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ff2660d5a9572ded01983f3e49a1c2c4d719909a8e335854d01a30c298c481c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-16T05:52:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf24298007cffcdf286f1d9a613784ee80b1d238dbcd6459e9ce63346266b950"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9710172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}