Pith Number

pith:RD5WCXI7

pith:2010:RD5WCXI7DFIHX6PMES42ZARHHB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dusty Wind-Blown Bubbles

Ed Churchwell, John E. Everett

arxiv:1003.0838 v1 · 2010-03-03 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RD5WCXI7DFIHX6PMES42ZARHHB}

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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	2026-05-18T02:08:46.974256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88fb615d1f19507bf9ec24b9ac8227387470d52341744a783d9e1c59f221c040

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.0838 · arxiv_version: 1003.0838v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.0838 · pith_short_12: RD5WCXI7DFIH · pith_short_16: RD5WCXI7DFIHX6PM · pith_short_8: RD5WCXI7

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/RD5WCXI7DFIHX6PMES42ZARHHB \
  | 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: 88fb615d1f19507bf9ec24b9ac8227387470d52341744a783d9e1c59f221c040

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "680a9912319a8cc8f616b267156ad27a51b133c39d9007a979666c9d21139e18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-03T15:32:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "717b73771e585a13fea6635d133a3bf48c44bf7c3ad99d2b7faaa1f1c0cdb297"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.0838",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}