Pith Number

pith:RITF2H65

pith:2022:RITF2H65NUZATRHNESYYA35L56

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A new member of the Milky Way's family tree: Characterizing the Pontus merger of our Galaxy

Khyati Malhan

arxiv:2204.09058 v1 · 2022-04-19 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RITF2H65NUZATRHNESYYA35L56}

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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	2026-07-05T04:24:19.559254Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a265d1fdd6d3209c4ed24b1806fabefbad3479babff7f4139791e450d1dbce7

Aliases

arxiv: 2204.09058 · arxiv_version: 2204.09058v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2204.09058 · pith_short_12: RITF2H65NUZA · pith_short_16: RITF2H65NUZATRHN · pith_short_8: RITF2H65

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/RITF2H65NUZATRHNESYYA35L56 \
  | 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: 8a265d1fdd6d3209c4ed24b1806fabefbad3479babff7f4139791e450d1dbce7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0cf7cee96d0d54d75ac7d4e2f882f78f0f8ff68802dc93ddb90c6989a64be6c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2022-04-19T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b3a23765e87278c5b2c60f34738c22ca4f7fdb6771c43563ac5a3769d7ed80b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2204.09058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}