Pith Number

pith:TLBFKVQE

pith:2012:TLBFKVQEWGEG4SKOLA66MLKNDP

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Variations in the Galactic star formation rate and density thresholds for star formation

A. J. Walsh, C. Battersby, C. R. Purcell, D. Kruijssen, E. Bressert, E. Lee, J. Bally, J. Ott, L. Cortese, L. Testi, M. Pestalozzi, N. Murray, S. Molinari, S. N. Longmore

arxiv:1208.4256 v1 · 2012-08-21 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TLBFKVQEWGEG4SKOLA66MLKNDP}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:55:08.807771Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9ac2555604b1886e494e583de62d4d1bcc5f77bb1b5ce26b63fdcc0b53a530ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4256 · arxiv_version: 1208.4256v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4256 · pith_short_12: TLBFKVQEWGEG · pith_short_16: TLBFKVQEWGEG4SKO · pith_short_8: TLBFKVQE

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TLBFKVQEWGEG4SKOLA66MLKNDP \
  | 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: 9ac2555604b1886e494e583de62d4d1bcc5f77bb1b5ce26b63fdcc0b53a530ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fa652210b86c33bddf120b393ae5ddc005abb99aa8cf7a61edc2320a8afc0e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-21T12:52:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6042c16222801fe2c4c4d455831d8e1b225b46c793fd4259450b7f85b11aba6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}