Pith Number

pith:THXRNRSR

pith:2017:THXRNRSRFCS4NATAIUZOTBBDDQ

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GMC Collisions as Triggers of Star Formation. III. Density and Magnetically Regulated Star Formation

Benjamin Wu, David Collins, Duncan Christie, Fumitaka Nakamura, Jonathan C. Tan, Sven Van Loo

arxiv:1702.08117 v2 · 2017-02-27 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{THXRNRSRFCS4NATAIUZOTBBDDQ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:42:29.600609Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

99ef16c65128a5c682604532e984231c0cb16f3d5acb1345aad498d36464d627

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.08117 · arxiv_version: 1702.08117v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08117 · pith_short_12: THXRNRSRFCS4 · pith_short_16: THXRNRSRFCS4NATA · pith_short_8: THXRNRSR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/THXRNRSRFCS4NATAIUZOTBBDDQ \
  | 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: 99ef16c65128a5c682604532e984231c0cb16f3d5acb1345aad498d36464d627

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-27T01:02:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50d0bb2dcc7e61052eea3389ddcfb7640d07e6630ab4dcf3d61cbb2518e58cb8"
  },
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  }
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