Pith Number

pith:BJNDTGIF

pith:2011:BJNDTGIFMLGKC5R3YVMZRXWKMK

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VLBA determination of the distance to nearby star-forming regions VI. The distance to the young stellar object HW 9 in Cepheus A

Amy J. Mioduszewski (NRAO), L. Loinard (CRyA-Unam), Luis F. Rodriguez (CRyA-UNAM), Rosa M. Torres (U. Bonn), S. Dzib (CRyA-UNAM)

arxiv:1103.4183 v1 · 2011-03-22 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{BJNDTGIFMLGKC5R3YVMZRXWKMK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:02:48.438856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a5a39990562cca1763bc55998deca62905be2936036b44a8f98463a7b47cc1d

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.4183 · arxiv_version: 1103.4183v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.4183 · pith_short_12: BJNDTGIFMLGK · pith_short_16: BJNDTGIFMLGKC5R3 · pith_short_8: BJNDTGIF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BJNDTGIFMLGKC5R3YVMZRXWKMK \
  | 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: 0a5a39990562cca1763bc55998deca62905be2936036b44a8f98463a7b47cc1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a85be85c62860a31ba281919094bf272aff377e8d70a3c3225840e3387605a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-22T01:12:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae10fc4246fe8143d6788ba3185e6e6024792ed32985d080e0b657f4cb876102"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.4183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}