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pith:VDACMMPL

pith:2010:VDACMMPLVBOGYSOBB3FOWZLO3H

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Importance of the Initial Conditions for Star Formation - I. Cloud Evolution and Morphology

Christoph Federrath, Philipp Girichidis, Ralf S. Klessen, Robi Banerjee

arxiv:1008.5255 v2 · 2010-08-31 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{VDACMMPLVBOGYSOBB3FOWZLO3H}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:05:41.134616Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8c02631eba85c6c49c10ecaeb656ed9d23f895cc5c781f7673c222b6ab33642

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.5255 · arxiv_version: 1008.5255v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.5255 · pith_short_12: VDACMMPLVBOG · pith_short_16: VDACMMPLVBOGYSOB · pith_short_8: VDACMMPL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VDACMMPLVBOGYSOBB3FOWZLO3H \
  | 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: a8c02631eba85c6c49c10ecaeb656ed9d23f895cc5c781f7673c222b6ab33642

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-31T08:38:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddf981cf9eec43ba812d8ab7768b6838904f9ac1f38cef138f8b360cbf2cd78f"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}