Pith Number

pith:V4UC2FA3

pith:2002:V4UC2FA3RWKIB5JXDD5CFDUWDC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Absorption Line Survey of H3+ toward the Galactic Center Sources I. GCS 3-2 and GC IRS3

2), (2) University of Hawaii, (3) University of California, (4) Gemini Observatory, (5) University of Chicago), Berkeley, B. J. McCall (3), H. Terada (1), M. Goto (1, N. Kobayashi (1), T. Oka (5) ((1) Subaru Telescope, T. R. Geballe (4), T. Usuda (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/0212159 v1 · 2002-12-06 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4UC2FA3RWKIB5JXDD5CFDUWDC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:39.818181Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af282d141b8d9480f53718fa228e96188e85e0f2c565d52b64102e5b039975f1

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0212159 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0212159v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0212159 · pith_short_12: V4UC2FA3RWKI · pith_short_16: V4UC2FA3RWKIB5JX · pith_short_8: V4UC2FA3

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/V4UC2FA3RWKIB5JXDD5CFDUWDC \
  | 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: af282d141b8d9480f53718fa228e96188e85e0f2c565d52b64102e5b039975f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da6f0685d76fa0ad85b474a05a9e569570a0017929669bc7b14ccf7e2a4a0d7f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-12-06T06:29:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9376a5cdc43047f05de6981b84456f394a4d7297e11a05682e2463f8b18f7f2a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0212159",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}