Pith Number

pith:YWXK2DGJ

pith:2017:YWXK2DGJES2XHNXSG34MNUX3FA

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ALMA observations of molecular absorption in four directions toward the Galactic bulge

H. Liszt, M. Gerin

arxiv:1712.03916 v1 · 2017-12-11 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YWXK2DGJES2XHNXSG34MNUX3FA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:09.092149Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5aead0cc924b573b6f236f8c6d2fb282dd2a19876832d9838d864c655711b37

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03916 · arxiv_version: 1712.03916v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03916 · pith_short_12: YWXK2DGJES2X · pith_short_16: YWXK2DGJES2XHNXS · pith_short_8: YWXK2DGJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YWXK2DGJES2XHNXSG34MNUX3FA \
  | 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: c5aead0cc924b573b6f236f8c6d2fb282dd2a19876832d9838d864c655711b37

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0573f962efdd15384466b7855e0c99667a172f7e6c19b818bf36fd4d720de308",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-11T17:51:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5dfeea90a2790540ae57a7205285a56767d567c7b9e8249f2e17821a9a5ca007"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03916",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}