Pith Number

pith:VSH66O3W

pith:2018:VSH66O3WSCPQMOLWLGQO6T56JL

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Science with an ngVLA: Star-forming Filaments and Cores on a Galactic Scale

James Di Francesco, Jared Keown, Paola Caselli, Rachel Friesen, Tyler Bourke

arxiv:1810.06701 v1 · 2018-10-15 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSH66O3WSCPQMOLWLGQO6T56JL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:11.872818Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac8fef3b76909f06397659a0ef4fbe4adc69741a96686e7004c9d24fc81fc9fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.06701 · arxiv_version: 1810.06701v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.06701 · pith_short_12: VSH66O3WSCPQ · pith_short_16: VSH66O3WSCPQMOLW · pith_short_8: VSH66O3W

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VSH66O3WSCPQMOLWLGQO6T56JL \
  | 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: ac8fef3b76909f06397659a0ef4fbe4adc69741a96686e7004c9d24fc81fc9fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "258daaa5392fb1d0fb74c8960e4637368a6d1e61cea5185b46b506e7bed40004",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-15T21:20:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69aba6259bf8c8326f4b37f2d06ecb423414aea1f927f5314166dad263d2bd1f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.06701",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}