Pith Number

pith:KFINVWOU

pith:2026:KFINVWOUPCRQFGN44D2X3J246U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

White Dwarf Kicks via Episodic Mass Ejection from Red Giant Stars

Jim Fuller

arxiv:2608.07455 v1 · 2026-08-07 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KFINVWOUPCRQFGN44D2X3J246U}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-08-10T01:15:27.983882Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5150dad9d478a30299bce0f57da75cf52a53957f801c2616221d1db6f6fe1966

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07455 · arxiv_version: 2608.07455v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07455 · pith_short_12: KFINVWOUPCRQ · pith_short_16: KFINVWOUPCRQFGN4 · pith_short_8: KFINVWOU

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/KFINVWOUPCRQFGN44D2X3J246U \
  | 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: 5150dad9d478a30299bce0f57da75cf52a53957f801c2616221d1db6f6fe1966

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65bab56f0e81412ff3a5ff3a4eb6f85d64222be62480735c9ecab806723799d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T17:47:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5936566f1265a932d147bb3013f91912b7f22eb7e8a12129248c861a88cc1ecb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07455",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}