Pith Number

pith:VINHGXBX

pith:1997:VINHGXBXMEISXQ5DB75EMIERJV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Nuclear Ionized Gas in the Radio Galaxy M84 (NGC 4374)

Andrew S. Wilson, Douglas O. Richstone, Gary A. Bower, Timothy M. Heckman

arxiv:astro-ph/9704105 v1 · 1997-04-11 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VINHGXBXMEISXQ5DB75EMIERJV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:38.492741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa1a735c3761112bc3a30ffa4620914d67ce639e1b01a32f87eecf1d7d472f2e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9704105 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9704105v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9704105 · pith_short_12: VINHGXBXMEIS · pith_short_16: VINHGXBXMEISXQ5D · pith_short_8: VINHGXBX

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/VINHGXBXMEISXQ5DB75EMIERJV \
  | 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: aa1a735c3761112bc3a30ffa4620914d67ce639e1b01a32f87eecf1d7d472f2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7be4053a6dc4947a37e6b2ddf85ffba923a96c207ef85f916a74781b83e59aec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-11T22:40:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e044ea02a823f2a8c689ff15dd37f7501fc34f4c116b657270508febce92867"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9704105",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}