Pith Number

pith:45V2MN6T

pith:2021:45V2MN6TI5SA4NUXDYSTVECKEZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Merger or Not: Accounting for Human Biases in Identifying Galactic Merger Signatures

Allison Kirkpatrick, Arianna Long, Colin Norman, Duncan J. Watts, Eileen T. Meyer, Erini Lambrides, Kirill Tchernyshyov, Kirsten R. Hall, Marco Chiaberge, Oz Amram, Raymond Simons, Timothy Heckman

arxiv:2106.15618 v1 · 2021-06-29 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45V2MN6TI5SA4NUXDYSTVECKEZ}

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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	2026-07-05T03:18:19.479055Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e76ba637d347640e36971e253a904a2665589d149c848e04077b197ab1f287ad

Aliases

arxiv: 2106.15618 · arxiv_version: 2106.15618v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.15618 · pith_short_12: 45V2MN6TI5SA · pith_short_16: 45V2MN6TI5SA4NUX · pith_short_8: 45V2MN6T

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/45V2MN6TI5SA4NUXDYSTVECKEZ \
  | 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: e76ba637d347640e36971e253a904a2665589d149c848e04077b197ab1f287ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32a65e5e4006f19aadb3edd9e530586881e48cb8b9cf0c2043929a23e2b81ae0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2021-06-29T17:59:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd09fddeda1ba450492b7cfa5bf0be5ba3ff8eb9f64fd3b650f2e65f123e698c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2106.15618",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}