Pith Number

pith:KVSTV2K4

pith:2004:KVSTV2K4LV5MFS4BYBHNIFWO6S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

MERLIN 6-GHz maser emission from W3(OH)

(2) Physics Department, M.D. Gray (2) ((1) Jodrell Bank Observatory, R.J. Cohen (1), S. Etoka (1), UK, UK), UMIST

arxiv:astro-ph/0412679 v1 · 2004-12-30 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVSTV2K4LV5MFS4BYBHNIFWO6S}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T14:14:00.717112Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55653ae95c5d7ac2cb81c04ed416cef49e9737bc12924cf8178327f9cda39443

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0412679 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0412679v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0412679 · pith_short_12: KVSTV2K4LV5M · pith_short_16: KVSTV2K4LV5MFS4B · pith_short_8: KVSTV2K4

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/KVSTV2K4LV5MFS4BYBHNIFWO6S \
  | 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: 55653ae95c5d7ac2cb81c04ed416cef49e9737bc12924cf8178327f9cda39443

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d84632c1ad6f4055dd5588dc34411964ccd7cfd146aa6c11fd9de0f247d026a6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-12-30T09:58:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94771055e2f2dc10da7977a33734dad27274f17252b5416075be149d7477880f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0412679",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}