Pith Number

pith:QJQVKVMJ

pith:2017:QJQVKVMJTOJPBMHM4PYY5LH7LF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Excess Galactic molecular absorption toward the radio galaxy 3C 111

2, (2) University of Maryland, 3), (3) University of Rome Tor Vergata, (4) Technion), College Park, C. S. Reynolds (2), E. Behar (4) ((1) NASA/GSFC, F. Tombesi (1, R. F. Mushotzky (2)

arxiv:1705.02106 v1 · 2017-05-05 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QJQVKVMJTOJPBMHM4PYY5LH7LF}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:41:33.181031Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82615555899b92f0b0ece3f18eacff594cefa8dec7adfe29f2ee5a0ba4ea75fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.02106 · arxiv_version: 1705.02106v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.02106 · pith_short_12: QJQVKVMJTOJP · pith_short_16: QJQVKVMJTOJPBMHM · pith_short_8: QJQVKVMJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QJQVKVMJTOJPBMHM4PYY5LH7LF \
  | 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: 82615555899b92f0b0ece3f18eacff594cefa8dec7adfe29f2ee5a0ba4ea75fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b2b682c17783e2a220a40c60dbe5d5df46215c9f28ece179b47b99859a06d5d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-05T07:24:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4ce1eb98b288c4b7a0e92ddf3cd132f6f5c8bd1751ae4be9455197c4a27e3cc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.02106",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}