Pith Number

pith:TMDF6V3S

pith:2015:TMDF6V3SRC6GRRWV4JFCWXQ5FJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Abundant Methanol Masers but no New Evidence for Star Formation in GCM0.253+0.016

C.C. Lang, D.A. Ludovici, E.A.C. Mills, J. Ott, M.R. Morris, N. Butterfield, S. Schmitz

arxiv:1503.08137 v1 · 2015-03-27 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TMDF6V3SRC6GRRWV4JFCWXQ5FJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:03:33.404310Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9b065f577288bc68c6d5e24a2b5e1d2a7cd54d518c0c8badb4841552846a3a3d

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.08137 · arxiv_version: 1503.08137v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.08137 · pith_short_12: TMDF6V3SRC6G · pith_short_16: TMDF6V3SRC6GRRWV · pith_short_8: TMDF6V3S

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/TMDF6V3SRC6GRRWV4JFCWXQ5FJ \
  | 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: 9b065f577288bc68c6d5e24a2b5e1d2a7cd54d518c0c8badb4841552846a3a3d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d311bb7ca2bc182cb96a2a812a74f8fc9a5c0f7d6fd4a611d89be2e994cd1655",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-27T16:44:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1827ede77212526851076e80fa541bd6060da5def9a347ccd8d0e6857c1d5f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.08137",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}