Pith Number

pith:ZMRG23MO

pith:2016:ZMRG23MO3EBPYKB4SYCNGRLQFR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Star Formation Law in the Milky Way

Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Yoshiaki SOFUE

arxiv:1610.05396 v1 · 2016-10-18 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZMRG23MO3EBPYKB4SYCNGRLQFR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:43.256184Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb226d6d8ed902fc283c9604d345702c6788dd180acc81dc645e16887082ed49

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.05396 · arxiv_version: 1610.05396v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.05396 · pith_short_12: ZMRG23MO3EBP · pith_short_16: ZMRG23MO3EBPYKB4 · pith_short_8: ZMRG23MO

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/ZMRG23MO3EBPYKB4SYCNGRLQFR \
  | 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: cb226d6d8ed902fc283c9604d345702c6788dd180acc81dc645e16887082ed49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6f55b9f847f3ac1bf781326e664ade0e6b9dfa5d343c15a05521fdebe6cc54f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-18T01:29:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d180fb37672e7ae55e6b32c5f995a0d88d41a448912a5f739b878bdc9c4cf781"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.05396",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}