Pith Number

pith:VTOAUWSN

pith:2016:VTOAUWSN2TSMWKBLB6XMXHFJHA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Molecular Gas in the Outskirts of Galaxies

(2) NAOJ Chile, 3, (3) JAO, 4) ((1) ESO, (4) Stony Brook), Jin Koda (2, Linda C. Watson (1)

arxiv:1612.05275 v1 · 2016-12-15 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTOAUWSN2TSMWKBLB6XMXHFJHA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:52.147513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acdc0a5a4dd4e4cb282b0faecb9ca93835ddea2645c6e616f00c3006feb1b088

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.05275 · arxiv_version: 1612.05275v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.05275 · pith_short_12: VTOAUWSN2TSM · pith_short_16: VTOAUWSN2TSMWKBL · pith_short_8: VTOAUWSN

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/VTOAUWSN2TSMWKBLB6XMXHFJHA \
  | 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: acdc0a5a4dd4e4cb282b0faecb9ca93835ddea2645c6e616f00c3006feb1b088

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f6ddce1488ab1954b0f124b4418d7c85779bca9e2201696af4e96da246bbf4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-15T21:19:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76b4efdd42c1e6660a5efc8562a7094acc90b856b04701c4b0b4958b2b65f8d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.05275",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}