Pith Number

pith:CKETEVX4

pith:2012:CKETEVX4CYJT4FRNY4Q4QSOC5E

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The Molecular Gas Density in Galaxy Centers and How It Connects to Bulges

Alberto Bolatto, David B. Fisher, Francoise Combes, Leo Blitz, Niv Drory, Tony Wong

arxiv:1211.6118 v1 · 2012-11-26 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CKETEVX4CYJT4FRNY4Q4QSOC5E}

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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	2026-05-18T01:52:54.736237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12893256fc16133e162dc721c849c2e93dbd30cab55f603329b84697f8fc2693

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.6118 · arxiv_version: 1211.6118v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.6118 · pith_short_12: CKETEVX4CYJT · pith_short_16: CKETEVX4CYJT4FRN · pith_short_8: CKETEVX4

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/CKETEVX4CYJT4FRNY4Q4QSOC5E \
  | 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: 12893256fc16133e162dc721c849c2e93dbd30cab55f603329b84697f8fc2693

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bfd41b421e466bd461e3c8fe8b7c80dd77683c27d0f93cffb6b5190d7b122d88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-26T21:00:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78bb03bd30623fd41dbc43e4f95cbf4d639509db06cdb099516719763805642c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.6118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}