Pith Number

pith:UMMBGWHJ

pith:2026:UMMBGWHJG4TVYE5YHEQPLYG457

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Disappearing Act: Constraints From "Missing" Flares of Repeating Partial TDE Candidates

Adam A. Miller, Benjamin J. Shappee, Chang Liu, Christopher S. Kochanek, Jason T. Hinkle, Katie Auchettl, K. Z. Stanek, Ping Chen, Todd A. Thompson

arxiv:2606.06578 v1 · 2026-06-04 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UMMBGWHJG4TVYE5YHEQPLYG457}

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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	2026-06-08T00:03:45.489749Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a3181358e937275c13b83920f5e0dcefc5bbe594329673c75c1bf0eecfba5141

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.06578 · arxiv_version: 2606.06578v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.06578 · pith_short_12: UMMBGWHJG4TV · pith_short_16: UMMBGWHJG4TVYE5Y · pith_short_8: UMMBGWHJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UMMBGWHJG4TVYE5YHEQPLYG457 \
  | 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: a3181358e937275c13b83920f5e0dcefc5bbe594329673c75c1bf0eecfba5141

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16cf1c437324aa8dbdb9b8e63b0b536e393a66bd7b311e367d6ded3737449a9a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-04T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be39d4f421cbcd271c3e22aebbd1bdb73a1cc30cdb359aa39ad0c8ff825182a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.06578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}