Pith Number

pith:VBP4Y5OP

pith:2010:VBP4Y5OPKV6GGHTZEB4SBWFHN5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Explosive Outflows Powered by the Decay of Non-Hierarchical Multiple Systems of Massive Stars: Orion BN/KL

Adam Frank, Ake Nordlund, John Bally, Michael G. Burton, Nathaniel J. Cunningham, Nathan Smith, Nickolas Moeckel

arxiv:1011.5512 v1 · 2010-11-23 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBP4Y5OPKV6GGHTZEB4SBWFHN5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:04:39.195008Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a85fcc75cf557c631e79207920d8a76f7ff691bd864fa05de48c02863eb14c81

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.5512 · arxiv_version: 1011.5512v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.5512 · pith_short_12: VBP4Y5OPKV6G · pith_short_16: VBP4Y5OPKV6GGHTZ · pith_short_8: VBP4Y5OP

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/VBP4Y5OPKV6GGHTZEB4SBWFHN5 \
  | 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: a85fcc75cf557c631e79207920d8a76f7ff691bd864fa05de48c02863eb14c81

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18f602726eec6659e8b3d1cfcd146a76365a3c5e4805a3e3a0a7195f0288cc0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-23T16:10:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2c8c773f663f1205b012661fa71076b02df4cef3fc0c0a6affc0ade59703c81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.5512",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}