Pith Number

pith:C7WPNBOS

pith:2004:C7WPNBOSHMHZ3C5W2NXZES3QP2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Star formation in RCW 108: triggered or spontaneous?

(2) OASU Bordeaux, (3) OAMP, D. Russeil (3) ((1) ESO, F. Comeron (1), France, France), Germany, N. Schneider (2)

arxiv:astro-ph/0412125 v1 · 2004-12-06 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C7WPNBOSHMHZ3C5W2NXZES3QP2}

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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	2026-07-04T16:45:21.537153Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17ecf685d23b0f9d8bb6d36f924b707e8cce14551367d1f49a681aa44c4e47ae

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0412125 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0412125v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0412125 · pith_short_12: C7WPNBOSHMHZ · pith_short_16: C7WPNBOSHMHZ3C5W · pith_short_8: C7WPNBOS

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/C7WPNBOSHMHZ3C5W2NXZES3QP2 \
  | 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: 17ecf685d23b0f9d8bb6d36f924b707e8cce14551367d1f49a681aa44c4e47ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53fd8bbced44135861a5a19bcf93736c0514862158d341212b496d459d53885d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-12-06T13:43:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21892a67df825919023260c588e1feae03ba903886f923b0df09a18f2e2b05c1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0412125",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}