Pith Number

pith:7JXK3PQR

pith:2026:7JXK3PQRUMEXN73C3A7XBUCKC3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Carbon Giant Population Revealed by Gaia DR3

Benjamin R. Roulston (Clarkson University), Paul J. Green (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)

arxiv:2608.10244 v1 · 2026-08-10 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7JXK3PQRUMEXN73C3A7XBUCKC3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-12T00:23:10.162862Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa6eadbe11a30976ff62d83f70d04a16ff826d6ef65cfacbe9d6d74a4812bd7d

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10244 · arxiv_version: 2608.10244v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10244 · pith_short_12: 7JXK3PQRUMEX · pith_short_16: 7JXK3PQRUMEXN73C · pith_short_8: 7JXK3PQR

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/7JXK3PQRUMEXN73C3A7XBUCKC3 \
  | 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: fa6eadbe11a30976ff62d83f70d04a16ff826d6ef65cfacbe9d6d74a4812bd7d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7aae3cda1d7b01fa820531ef13528074f40f4374806933f56ca1e56997ccb9dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T21:22:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df32ea86efbad2aacde02919904e6b921745a3f12db7f8cd3280e424a819107d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10244",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}