Pith Number

pith:YNYSCFJT

pith:1997:YNYSCFJTCLJ5L7UNQULLLGDXPM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Observations and Theory of Dynamical Triggers for Star Formation

B. G. Elmegreen (IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center)

arxiv:astro-ph/9712352 v1 · 1997-12-31 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNYSCFJTCLJ5L7UNQULLLGDXPM}

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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	2026-07-04T14:15:36.829195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c37121153312d3d5fe8d8516b598777b2f959be0b234717fe0fce9b4ec930408

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712352 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712352v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712352 · pith_short_12: YNYSCFJTCLJ5 · pith_short_16: YNYSCFJTCLJ5L7UN · pith_short_8: YNYSCFJT

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/YNYSCFJTCLJ5L7UNQULLLGDXPM \
  | 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: c37121153312d3d5fe8d8516b598777b2f959be0b234717fe0fce9b4ec930408

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19c72416be90aaeb928344e9fc47772132577fbfac938980cab19ee54c1f03c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-31T17:00:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d724371cf39708595c64b818847346e897115b32801ffb2fc29d6c933086c41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712352",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}