Pith Number

pith:RKPQ6O3S

pith:2017:RKPQ6O3SF2XGVE5X4DFV2L23VB

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A Model for the Onset of Self-gravitation and Star Formation in Molecular Gas Governed by Galactic Forces: I. Cloud-scale Gas Motions

Adam K. Leroy, Andreas Schruba, Annie Hughes, Antonio Usero, Erik Rosolowsky, Eva Schinnerer, Frank Bigiel, Guillermo Blanc, Jerome Pety, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Melanie Chevance, Miguel Querejeta, Sharon E. Meidt

arxiv:1712.06364 v1 · 2017-12-18 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{RKPQ6O3SF2XGVE5X4DFV2L23VB}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:23.547349Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a9f0f3b722eae6a93b7e0cb5d2f5ba877fbfc0e2657506f0ddd021f7c87f6f9

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06364 · arxiv_version: 1712.06364v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06364 · pith_short_12: RKPQ6O3SF2XG · pith_short_16: RKPQ6O3SF2XGVE5X · pith_short_8: RKPQ6O3S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RKPQ6O3SF2XGVE5X4DFV2L23VB \
  | 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: 8a9f0f3b722eae6a93b7e0cb5d2f5ba877fbfc0e2657506f0ddd021f7c87f6f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab352b1ff5a7a7ad650aa93a15a20f3a3bf471b4b32f44465a890b7d6ad29454",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T12:27:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f27bcfa0b40c523d6b1eab3489cc55a109fb88557aac7c3fc304f35d6c4b26c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.06364",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}