Pith Number

pith:XYS4ZHYN

pith:2012:XYS4ZHYNEVEPU2L5MF2ADFZZQG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dense Molecular Gas: A Sensitive Probe of Stellar Feedback Models

(2) Steward, (3) CITA), Desika Narayanan (2), Eliot Quataert (1) ((1) Berkeley, Norman Murray (3), Philip F. Hopkins (1)

arxiv:1209.0459 v2 · 2012-09-03 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XYS4ZHYNEVEPU2L5MF2ADFZZQG}

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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	2026-05-18T02:37:52.275437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be25cc9f0d2548fa697d617401973981a8e82b63b15be099e9961ace47665efc

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.0459 · arxiv_version: 1209.0459v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.0459 · pith_short_12: XYS4ZHYNEVEP · pith_short_16: XYS4ZHYNEVEPU2L5 · pith_short_8: XYS4ZHYN

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/XYS4ZHYNEVEPU2L5MF2ADFZZQG \
  | 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: be25cc9f0d2548fa697d617401973981a8e82b63b15be099e9961ace47665efc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "737fc0d1c38fae014b0d2973badcf07e22db1cd4453a0be749df0bea2f62f161",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-03T20:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c6763a871471f98c3782c07c717b84c5f3b93f93eb344649290c5b9375fa79d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.0459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}