Pith Number

pith:TZWHKJGA

pith:2017:TZWHKJGAI2MMW2ZN6JUYK6SDXP

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The Formation of Stellar Clusters in Magnetized, Filamentary Infrared Dark Clouds

Christopher F. McKee, Pak Shing Li, Richard I. Klein

arxiv:1708.06770 v1 · 2017-08-22 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TZWHKJGAI2MMW2ZN6JUYK6SDXP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:52.996035Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e6c7524c04698cb6b2df269857a43bbfe03f0b87fcbf18c4a2eae9581d0458f

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06770 · arxiv_version: 1708.06770v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06770 · pith_short_12: TZWHKJGAI2MM · pith_short_16: TZWHKJGAI2MMW2ZN · pith_short_8: TZWHKJGA

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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/TZWHKJGAI2MMW2ZN6JUYK6SDXP \
  | 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: 9e6c7524c04698cb6b2df269857a43bbfe03f0b87fcbf18c4a2eae9581d0458f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c85b0a92be01fb386c61c7e1b59090245a1f5e2a4b39cfa12f515da40df31b1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-22T18:05:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "133fc4658c91e1cc7fd62aef7b462da7276f96cd4059bd42a884d481d3fc3eeb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06770",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}