Pith Number

pith:VMCGXPSQ

pith:2001:VMCGXPSQ5SVKLBRLNUL5VL6WUE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Summary: Modes of Star Formation

Richard B. Larson

arxiv:astro-ph/0101046 v1 · 2001-01-03 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMCGXPSQ5SVKLBRLNUL5VL6WUE}

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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	2026-07-04T14:10:59.207255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab046bbe50ecaaa5862b6d17daafd6a10f8467885e71f22502eb21855f914e48

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0101046 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0101046v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0101046 · pith_short_12: VMCGXPSQ5SVK · pith_short_16: VMCGXPSQ5SVKLBRL · pith_short_8: VMCGXPSQ

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/VMCGXPSQ5SVKLBRLNUL5VL6WUE \
  | 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: ab046bbe50ecaaa5862b6d17daafd6a10f8467885e71f22502eb21855f914e48

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c3c425a10d44495f1297eeff3ab8ae33972c86fe2c066046690ed3b9c607d0a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-01-03T21:19:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3bf1c734c58d8dc7d2cf118ab7a037826cdc86384405a16e607882d0a964098f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0101046",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}