Pith Number

pith:VBL3HVHE

pith:2010:VBL3HVHEM3LKEOTN6VNOWXUY2K

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Progressive star formation in the young galactic super star cluster NGC 3603

Abhijit Saha, Alistair R. Walker, Bradley C. Whitmore, Bruce Balick, C. Marcella Carollo, Daniela Calzetti, Donald N. B. Hall, Erick Young, Francesco Paresce, Giacomo Beccari, Guido De Marchi, Howard Bond, Jay A. Frogel, John T. Trauger, Jon A. Holtzman, Joseph I. Silk, Loredana Spezzi, Michael A. Dopita, Michael J. Disney, Morten Andersen, Nino Panagia, Patrick J. McCarthy, Randy A. Kimble, Robert W. O'Connell, Rogier A. Windhorst

arxiv:1007.2795 v1 · 2010-07-16 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBL3HVHEM3LKEOTN6VNOWXUY2K}

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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	2026-05-18T02:06:21.206943Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a857b3d4e466d6a23a6df55aeb5e98d293b91778ebf825a3b95d5c2672267bd9

Aliases

arxiv: 1007.2795 · arxiv_version: 1007.2795v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1007.2795 · pith_short_12: VBL3HVHEM3LK · pith_short_16: VBL3HVHEM3LKEOTN · pith_short_8: VBL3HVHE

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/VBL3HVHEM3LKEOTN6VNOWXUY2K \
  | 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: a857b3d4e466d6a23a6df55aeb5e98d293b91778ebf825a3b95d5c2672267bd9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6915c5c08a84c36210e3eb27e1fddaf127da21c7402bbd0aef63bb68bf7d5fb5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-07-16T15:29:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12729a6f09299a63bdb76739fbeaedfc0aee38b438cb41f36bb9ef69069fda7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1007.2795",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}