Pith Number

pith:247VPVQQ

pith:2008:247VPVQQYA3RIXEZETUEXL6QPS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sequential star formation in a cometary globule (BRC37) of IC1396

Andrew J. Pickles, Chie Nagashima, Hidehiko Nakaya, Hisashi Ikeda, Koji Sugitani, Makoto Nakano, Makoto Watanabe, Motohide Tamura, Naoya Fukuda, Takahiro Nagayama, Tetsuya Nagata, Yasushi Nakajima

arxiv:0804.1178 v2 · 2008-04-08 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{247VPVQQYA3RIXEZETUEXL6QPS}

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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	2026-07-04T17:10:15.367797Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d73f57d610c037145c9924e84bafd07cb9416ca18f07366b97e1c9d00e4e60fd

Aliases

arxiv: 0804.1178 · arxiv_version: 0804.1178v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0804.1178 · pith_short_12: 247VPVQQYA3R · pith_short_16: 247VPVQQYA3RIXEZ · pith_short_8: 247VPVQQ

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/247VPVQQYA3RIXEZETUEXL6QPS \
  | 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: d73f57d610c037145c9924e84bafd07cb9416ca18f07366b97e1c9d00e4e60fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "298750d59d7d3f2b44ae73f6e92b8f4124c405fa1e1092d2b6f52c5361dea1f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-04-08T04:48:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f0410a64197d5e4319c4fc6c33c9463fd5e028a4a44551834f2b3f363ffe987"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0804.1178",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}