Pith Number

pith:VG4IECLK

pith:2018:VG4IECLKWWSSCPMGU2JQZIUKKJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

OH absorption in the first quadrant of the Milky Way as seen by THOR

A. Brunthaler, A. Walsh, F. Bigiel, F. Wyrowski, H. Beuther, J. D. Soler, J. Kainulainen, J. Ott, J. S. Urquhart, K. M. Menten, L. D. Anderson, M. R. Rugel, N. Roy, N. Schneider, P. F. Goldsmith, R. J. Smith, R. S. Klessen, S. Bihr, S. C. O. Glover, S. E. Ragan, S. N. Longmore, T. Henning, Y. Wang

arxiv:1803.04794 v2 · 2018-03-13 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VG4IECLKWWSSCPMGU2JQZIUKKJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:41.884965Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9b882096ab5a5213d86a6930ca28a52512e96d09301f915a0fcf1327c9a7eb0

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.04794 · arxiv_version: 1803.04794v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.04794 · pith_short_12: VG4IECLKWWSS · pith_short_16: VG4IECLKWWSSCPMG · pith_short_8: VG4IECLK

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/VG4IECLKWWSSCPMGU2JQZIUKKJ \
  | 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: a9b882096ab5a5213d86a6930ca28a52512e96d09301f915a0fcf1327c9a7eb0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5eaeba0ae172ec1b031c060ab0f19910d844d151c4c0421af6aeda842c454760",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-13T13:37:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "995250b6e6cc3c7483fd0623176b3a3cf00d2c8b83777274f7b62a049c8898de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.04794",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}