Pith Number

pith:X4MDJKMH

pith:2016:X4MDJKMHZNHXQ2EZLKPYXEPVJB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Star formation towards the Galactic HII region RCW120

A. Abergel, A. Men'shchikov, A. Traficante, A. Zavagno, D. Paradis, D. Russeil, F. Motte, G. Leleu, H. Roussel, J-P. Bernard, J. Tig\'e, L.D. Anderson, L. Deharveng, M. Figueira, N. Schneider, P. Andr\'e, P. M\`ege, S. Bontemps, T. Hill

arxiv:1612.08862 v1 · 2016-12-28 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X4MDJKMHZNHXQ2EZLKPYXEPVJB}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:46:38.246181Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf1834a987cb4f7868995a9f8b91f5486222865182a77506bb53f02523dbc161

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.08862 · arxiv_version: 1612.08862v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.08862 · pith_short_12: X4MDJKMHZNHX · pith_short_16: X4MDJKMHZNHXQ2EZ · pith_short_8: X4MDJKMH

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/X4MDJKMHZNHXQ2EZLKPYXEPVJB \
  | 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: bf1834a987cb4f7868995a9f8b91f5486222865182a77506bb53f02523dbc161

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4de428fcedff1748eab6cfaf1d46ee30f02fd9a81c92bc192ddd6166dc7ef925",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-28T11:54:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5e7e16a117f39fb31ac1e3999f30bf25e2176d340d6d2c6f7486f74223fc387"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.08862",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}