Pith Number

pith:X3ARJRXZ

pith:2022:X3ARJRXZ4BZC6FMPH5DWN7QTLO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Slow Star Formation in the Milky Way: Theory Meets Observations

Eve C. Ostriker, Jeong-Gyu Kim, Neal J. Evans II

arxiv:2204.02314 v1 · 2022-04-05 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X3ARJRXZ4BZC6FMPH5DWN7QTLO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T04:18:11.785053Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bec114c6f9e0722f158f3f4766fe135b9d226d365cbb0f605053a8a4e8698bac

Aliases

arxiv: 2204.02314 · arxiv_version: 2204.02314v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2204.02314 · pith_short_12: X3ARJRXZ4BZC · pith_short_16: X3ARJRXZ4BZC6FMP · pith_short_8: X3ARJRXZ

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/X3ARJRXZ4BZC6FMPH5DWN7QTLO \
  | 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: bec114c6f9e0722f158f3f4766fe135b9d226d365cbb0f605053a8a4e8698bac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09c72ecf94596a7d2cf47be602226c977b07efab009235f95364288ac5cd8b34",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2022-04-05T16:15:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d5b64a7c984511d1b497dd40be3a17821a50a27789c8660c6440a316d7730bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2204.02314",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}