Pith Number

pith:WKYBUS5K

pith:2015:WKYBUS5KMP75A2XYJSMRHWUCGE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The connecting molecular ridge in the Galactic center

Chorng-Yuan Hwang, Paul T. P. Ho, Pei-Ying Hsieh

arxiv:1510.03117 v1 · 2015-10-12 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WKYBUS5KMP75A2XYJSMRHWUCGE}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:30:32.705804Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2b01a4baa63ffd06af84c9913da823128b2c274529e6811087a1e881b6826fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.03117 · arxiv_version: 1510.03117v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.03117 · pith_short_12: WKYBUS5KMP75 · pith_short_16: WKYBUS5KMP75A2XY · pith_short_8: WKYBUS5K

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/WKYBUS5KMP75A2XYJSMRHWUCGE \
  | 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: b2b01a4baa63ffd06af84c9913da823128b2c274529e6811087a1e881b6826fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a6b9e071ee7acc167d717cea33bab4451623f8225cd8f7801370796d9b5b76f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-12T01:20:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7a78742796a3c4d3da48469a63affd5caee1725d5ed2e65a5a885b5fda726c2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.03117",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}