Pith Number

pith:RVM3EBVL

pith:2005:RVM3EBVL7M2JS7HSYAGG6OXWMC

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Triggered Star Formation by Massive Stars

Hsu-Tai Lee, W. P. Chen

arxiv:astro-ph/0509315 v2 · 2005-09-13 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RVM3EBVL7M2JS7HSYAGG6OXWMC}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-04T16:52:53.504731Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d59b206abfb34997cf2c00c6f3af660b89a1750d8c389ebaa7e9e619a9cab82

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0509315 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0509315v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0509315 · pith_short_12: RVM3EBVL7M2J · pith_short_16: RVM3EBVL7M2JS7HS · pith_short_8: RVM3EBVL

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/RVM3EBVL7M2JS7HSYAGG6OXWMC \
  | 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: 8d59b206abfb34997cf2c00c6f3af660b89a1750d8c389ebaa7e9e619a9cab82

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "774662cbf086de758ad3980f2098b2e55ac72aea50b2dbd0ab91b533864f613c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-09-13T07:03:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f612b6f3965b867eebf28b78118bc2a9e2745c0fb0b8097b5f0b3023ff9d7177"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0509315",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}