Pith Number

pith:VDO7B4CK

pith:2012:VDO7B4CKQSDSN3TJY2EM7JS55E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Self-Similarity of the Circumgalactic Medium with Galaxy Virial Mass: Implications for Cold-Mode Accretion

Christopher W. Churchill, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Nikole M. Nielsen, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez

arxiv:1211.1008 v2 · 2012-11-05 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{VDO7B4CKQSDSN3TJY2EM7JS55E}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:53:25.605133Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8ddf0f04a848726ee69c688cfa65de93c803c57b425809184fda9743910136b

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.1008 · arxiv_version: 1211.1008v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.1008 · pith_short_12: VDO7B4CKQSDS · pith_short_16: VDO7B4CKQSDSN3TJ · pith_short_8: VDO7B4CK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VDO7B4CKQSDSN3TJY2EM7JS55E \
  | 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: a8ddf0f04a848726ee69c688cfa65de93c803c57b425809184fda9743910136b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "674fb9d07fbbc11a89d50348b27f676fbdca0989c6d692c12c9f84daf4c60892",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-05T21:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d5b3681cdcdaf850486b81d36ea397e8e588660bcc42a13dc1384752e527ed3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.1008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}