Pith Number

pith:X2KNTQEC

pith:2002:X2KNTQECJIMDFDGFROLV4GEEKZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Molecular gas in the intergalactic medium of Stephan's Quintet

Elias Brinks, Jonathan Braine, Pierre-Alain Duc, Stephane Leon, Ute Lisenfeld, Vassilis Charmandaris

arxiv:astro-ph/0210014 v1 · 2002-10-01 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X2KNTQECJIMDFDGFROLV4GEEKZ}

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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	2026-07-04T14:12:16.222677Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be94d9c0824a18328cc58b975e188456440175e9fc41477e37a0bd547305d54c

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0210014 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0210014v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210014 · pith_short_12: X2KNTQECJIMD · pith_short_16: X2KNTQECJIMDFDGF · pith_short_8: X2KNTQEC

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/X2KNTQECJIMDFDGFROLV4GEEKZ \
  | 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: be94d9c0824a18328cc58b975e188456440175e9fc41477e37a0bd547305d54c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "07cd72f007ba4a0f9d22bdc0ddc54f1595e96d3d01b2771be24e4764de8260fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-01T11:05:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f706c369c8d10f7f62fb1ca9a145ac1acc6329d05344c5a297f154f277e76a77"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0210014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}