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pith:DB4JD43R

pith:2008:DB4JD43RTS6EIEAT2TLOKLEZW5

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The "True" Column Density Distribution in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds

Alyssa A. Goodman, Jaime E. Pineda, Scott L. Schnee

arxiv:0806.3441 v3 · 2008-06-20 · astro-ph

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B-Fields and Star Formation across Scales with TRAO (B-FROST): CO Abundances, Dynamics and Relative Orientations in the Translucent High Latitude Cloud MBM12

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:29:33.399217Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

187891f3719cbc441013d4d6e52c99b75532894f81313dd69867aa75ab10bb59

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.3441 · arxiv_version: 0806.3441v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.3441 · pith_short_12: DB4JD43RTS6E · pith_short_16: DB4JD43RTS6EIEAT · pith_short_8: DB4JD43R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DB4JD43RTS6EIEAT2TLOKLEZW5 \
  | 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: 187891f3719cbc441013d4d6e52c99b75532894f81313dd69867aa75ab10bb59

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d8f6f5799aff4bc42da2111baf61d07a5f97ecb2427e8236cadc5731ab3a842c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-20T19:12:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b247d371b03739aad394e02cb15ddccb76b64c26f581856c9baadb989c132bfe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.3441",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}