Pith Number

pith:2ZJXHGT6

pith:2026:2ZJXHGT6S4IKPALNYOL47BQ3TU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evidence for the First Globular Cluster Stellar Stream beyond the Milky Way

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Catherine Fielder, David Hendel, David J. Sand, Jacob Nibauer, Julie Kiel Holm, Sarah Pearson, Tjitske Starkenburg

arxiv:2608.12254 v1 · 2026-08-12 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2ZJXHGT6S4IKPALNYOL47BQ3TU}

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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	2026-08-13T01:30:37.818007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d653739a7e9710a7816dc397cf861b9d1dfebc1aa588a915b5b457e3972916b7

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12254 · arxiv_version: 2608.12254v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12254 · pith_short_12: 2ZJXHGT6S4IK · pith_short_16: 2ZJXHGT6S4IKPALN · pith_short_8: 2ZJXHGT6

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/2ZJXHGT6S4IKPALNYOL47BQ3TU \
  | 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: d653739a7e9710a7816dc397cf861b9d1dfebc1aa588a915b5b457e3972916b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "54c6ab458466349e1fe01900ee03281af1639e6bfd8c486f751174b1834d6a84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T16:56:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18aa86bfc53af47cf5a80bff48caca7f85aece8f49e7a3f417039a9a64b7ffbc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12254",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}