Pith Number

pith:S6D4YNM3

pith:2004:S6D4YNM3YRQFO2ERMQTOLTJ43W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Anatomy of Star Formation in NGC 300

(2) Caltech, (3) University of Arizona, (4) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Alonso-Herrero (3), C.W. Engelbracht (3), D. Frayer (1), D. Makovoz (1), F. Masci (1), G.G. Fazio (4), G. Helou (1), G. Rieke (3), H.A. Smith (4) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, H. Roussel (2), J. Surace (1), K.D. Gordon (3), K. Misselt (3), L. Storrie-Lombardi (1), M.L.N. Ashby (4), M. Pahre (4), M. Rieke (3), P. Appleton (1), P. Lowrance (1), R. Hurt (1), S.P. Willner (4), S. Stolovy (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/0408248 v1 · 2004-08-13 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{S6D4YNM3YRQFO2ERMQTOLTJ43W}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:12:01.152485Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9787cc359bc4605768916426e5cd3cddbc4f8e6a0b915b7ab6436f67d23ea4ab

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0408248 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0408248v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0408248 · pith_short_12: S6D4YNM3YRQF · pith_short_16: S6D4YNM3YRQFO2ER · pith_short_8: S6D4YNM3

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/S6D4YNM3YRQFO2ERMQTOLTJ43W \
  | 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: 9787cc359bc4605768916426e5cd3cddbc4f8e6a0b915b7ab6436f67d23ea4ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "920110361510d4c80966307399e5246550b17acaec7543a99ef4f2f512850030",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-08-13T01:50:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93181dc70dd029e2a96cf24c14827f0536d23492eb10f32cc89c197219ba4012"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0408248",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}