Pith Number

pith:UZQC6BPA

pith:2017:UZQC6BPANOEA6IFBTMIEF5FF6R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Major impact from a minor merger - The extraordinary hot molecular gas flow in the Eye of the NGC 4194 Medusa galaxy

A. Adamo, E. J\"utte, E. Varenius, J. S. Gallagher III, M. Krips, R. J. Beswick, S. Aalto, S. K\"onig, S. Muller

arxiv:1712.04030 v2 · 2017-12-11 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UZQC6BPANOEA6IFBTMIEF5FF6R}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:19.050950Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6602f05e06b880f20a19b1042f4a5f476a1ebac8d237bae831a858c9f7f5feb

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04030 · arxiv_version: 1712.04030v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04030 · pith_short_12: UZQC6BPANOEA · pith_short_16: UZQC6BPANOEA6IFB · pith_short_8: UZQC6BPA

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/UZQC6BPANOEA6IFBTMIEF5FF6R \
  | 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: a6602f05e06b880f20a19b1042f4a5f476a1ebac8d237bae831a858c9f7f5feb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1bdd21021797e4467bee1fcdd71b905bed19dfcaa73d9f2512a77d117f2d67e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-11T21:10:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "241ffd7eb2557adefa49b419aa61a29ba128fe742cda90725ac8395268a177d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04030",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}