Pith Number

pith:RKLMMQ2Z

pith:2015:RKLMMQ2Z6YZZENL66IKYMTHTBT

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Prestellar Core Formation, Evolution, and Accretion from Gravitational Fragmentation in Turbulent Converging Flows

Eve C. Ostriker, Munan Gong

arxiv:1504.02140 v1 · 2015-04-08 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RKLMMQ2Z6YZZENL66IKYMTHTBT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:55:41.677430Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a96c64359f63392357ef215864cf30cc7152d4ce0e8558187045e891fa2ea77

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.02140 · arxiv_version: 1504.02140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.02140 · pith_short_12: RKLMMQ2Z6YZZ · pith_short_16: RKLMMQ2Z6YZZENL6 · pith_short_8: RKLMMQ2Z

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/RKLMMQ2Z6YZZENL66IKYMTHTBT \
  | 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: 8a96c64359f63392357ef215864cf30cc7152d4ce0e8558187045e891fa2ea77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "37c89274cb3611961118f788aeb7b74fc4b4ba995c3b8a955250b26587c6ddee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-08T21:58:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7a4fa3b11c8063fee629a985df3f0059f772fd67f0f2a5d7ee196d450fb0ce19"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.02140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}