Pith Number

pith:VX4QJY6S

pith:2012:VX4QJY6SRAJJBM5A2HW2UOI55X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Detection of Powerful Mid-IR H2 Emission in the Bridge between the Taffy Galaxies

AAO), B. W. Peterson (Iowa State, C. Struck (Iowa State), F. Boulanger (IAS U. Paris), G. Helou (IPAC Caltech), IPAC Caltech), M. E. Cluver (SSC/IPAC Caltech, P. Guillard (SSC/IPAC Caltech), P. N. Appleton (HSC/IPAC Caltech), P. Ogle (SSC/IPAC Caltech), T. H. Jarrett (IPAC Caltech)

arxiv:1203.4203 v1 · 2012-03-19 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VX4QJY6SRAJJBM5A2HW2UOI55X}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:06.033280Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adf904e3d2881290b3a0d1edaa391dedeccf6d2da87009178a005f6555afcac1

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.4203 · arxiv_version: 1203.4203v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.4203 · pith_short_12: VX4QJY6SRAJJ · pith_short_16: VX4QJY6SRAJJBM5A · pith_short_8: VX4QJY6S

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/VX4QJY6SRAJJBM5A2HW2UOI55X \
  | 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: adf904e3d2881290b3a0d1edaa391dedeccf6d2da87009178a005f6555afcac1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "21d6fe08a588deec734c007318fadb869d3dd724598d6aea5226c09bf24cd275",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-19T19:09:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b6318d0ceeeae749934f414ccd858b257fe5bd3a55062369a5a6b8eaec2fad8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.4203",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}