Pith Number

pith:2JMG44VD

pith:2012:2JMG44VD6WFA2RB3QEOQURVTHH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Lives of High Redshift Mergers

Geraint F. Lewis, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Manodeep Sinha, Miroslav Micic, Sanjib Sharma, Tom McCavana

arxiv:1204.6319 v3 · 2012-04-27 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2JMG44VD6WFA2RB3QEOQURVTHH}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:57:43.003764Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2586e72a3f58a0d443b811d0a46b339db99035dcfbf5cf5acd25a806080759f

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.6319 · arxiv_version: 1204.6319v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.6319 · pith_short_12: 2JMG44VD6WFA · pith_short_16: 2JMG44VD6WFA2RB3 · pith_short_8: 2JMG44VD

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/2JMG44VD6WFA2RB3QEOQURVTHH \
  | 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: d2586e72a3f58a0d443b811d0a46b339db99035dcfbf5cf5acd25a806080759f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ea56a96e93029d52ef0c9f45129c7f533181cdbfd54575533818df45573643a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-27T20:00:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b255c19632ae5554ba04b91a5e516f853d728e3ade71d93709c7b65c7fa3412e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.6319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}