Pith Number

pith:YYMBCDTH

pith:2026:YYMBCDTHLOOWOSAPPULU7EDA6W

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Evidence of triggered star formation in the Pillars of Creation from JWST observations

Bingqiu Chen, Biwei Jiang, Jian Gao, Jing Wen, Jun Li, Ming Yang

arxiv:2605.29904 v1 · 2026-05-28 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YYMBCDTHLOOWOSAPPULU7EDA6W}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-29T02:05:58.785302Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c618110e675b9d67480f7d174f9060f583759b4662e791904eaff6f01c791e0d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.29904 · arxiv_version: 2605.29904v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.29904 · pith_short_12: YYMBCDTHLOOW · pith_short_16: YYMBCDTHLOOWOSAP · pith_short_8: YYMBCDTH

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/YYMBCDTHLOOWOSAPPULU7EDA6W \
  | 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: c618110e675b9d67480f7d174f9060f583759b4662e791904eaff6f01c791e0d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a064dce0b9ae9fd9c90191ab499f26066aed9d0047a03d4f82f41f1b8127d95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T13:23:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f84b7055861ccc74c27e74d1295c402d1d54560ecc3fb382ebcbbc1814a2e39"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.29904",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}