Pith Number

pith:ULHGU77Z

pith:2014:ULHGU77ZAYOMLEZRO5D2WE3J3V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Search For Star Formation in the Smith Cloud

Ashley D. Baker, David V. Stark, Sheila J. Kannappan

arxiv:1410.4845 v1 · 2014-10-17 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ULHGU77ZAYOMLEZRO5D2WE3J3V}

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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	2026-05-18T01:41:43.884512Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2ce6a7ff9061cc593317747ab1369dd62f30d8a2c8e5d5a528ab686ed50289d

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.4845 · arxiv_version: 1410.4845v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.4845 · pith_short_12: ULHGU77ZAYOM · pith_short_16: ULHGU77ZAYOMLEZR · pith_short_8: ULHGU77Z

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/ULHGU77ZAYOMLEZRO5D2WE3J3V \
  | 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: a2ce6a7ff9061cc593317747ab1369dd62f30d8a2c8e5d5a528ab686ed50289d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86cc6adb3c68d818944bd26a7ce86bfdd2b3fa4fa4331af98e8b218a4dbd25ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-17T20:00:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b1bb359e201dba5c36c39557844ecc491f38df24ee80b04da8acb5937d62162"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.4845",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}