Pith Number

pith:GCKCU7I5

pith:2023:GCKCU7I56L3JVZ3NWK3H4RXBGC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The origin of dust polarization in the Orion Bar

Alex Lazarian, Archana Soam, B-G Andersson, David T. Chuss, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, John E. Vaillancourt, Joseph M. Michail, Sophia Flores, Thi\'ebaut Schirmer, Thiem Hoang, Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec

arxiv:2305.01908 v1 · 2023-05-03 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GCKCU7I56L3JVZ3NWK3H4RXBGC}

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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	2026-07-05T06:29:47.879599Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

30942a7d1df2f69ae76db2b67e46e130bfdeac31ad3ff700a796f278f6de8b3b

Aliases

arxiv: 2305.01908 · arxiv_version: 2305.01908v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.01908 · pith_short_12: GCKCU7I56L3J · pith_short_16: GCKCU7I56L3JVZ3N · pith_short_8: GCKCU7I5

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/GCKCU7I56L3JVZ3NWK3H4RXBGC \
  | 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: 30942a7d1df2f69ae76db2b67e46e130bfdeac31ad3ff700a796f278f6de8b3b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d679765ac1f5fabd5a9f47dc3271cba46f3ef1b9a8f57e5253020513c91f5e6f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2023-05-03T05:46:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79bc209517ceaea44f0a31bd7642a91add5c78ef802eb3283835aa356018885d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2305.01908",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}