Pith Number

pith:LVSCZLGF

pith:2016:LVSCZLGFWFDQZVESAIEBC3ZIHQ

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Recovering interstellar gas properties with HI spectral lines: A comparison between synthetic spectra and 21-SPONGE

Brian Babler, Carl Heiles, Chang-Goo Kim, Claire E. Murray, Eve C. Ostriker, John M. Dickey, Robert R. Lindner, Snezana Stanimirovic

arxiv:1612.02017 v2 · 2016-12-06 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{LVSCZLGFWFDQZVESAIEBC3ZIHQ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:49:10.968450Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d642cacc5b1470cd4920208116f283c08dc8f0695ac212d237573a47cc5b45c

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.02017 · arxiv_version: 1612.02017v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.02017 · pith_short_12: LVSCZLGFWFDQ · pith_short_16: LVSCZLGFWFDQZVES · pith_short_8: LVSCZLGF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LVSCZLGFWFDQZVESAIEBC3ZIHQ \
  | 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: 5d642cacc5b1470cd4920208116f283c08dc8f0695ac212d237573a47cc5b45c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cc0ae2c4b9633f5de0e8c65e7f7dfe58b195bec82da5307e47762510bc864aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-06T21:01:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55345aa85a914c7f2e5849ecc6404a1c7868891cb16c061722280a564723f43f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.02017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}