Pith Number

pith:52QYVNDW

pith:2026:52QYVNDWMAZ7BBHLK5X6JNN4XN

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Quenching of Star Formation in Massive Galaxies

Katherine E. Whitaker, Rachel Bezanson

arxiv:2606.12156 v1 · 2026-06-10 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{52QYVNDWMAZ7BBHLK5X6JNN4XN}

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-11T01:10:51.732341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eea18ab4766033f084eb576fe4b5bcbb5a9843a1c4d6deb84946baec257d24ef

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12156 · arxiv_version: 2606.12156v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12156 · pith_short_12: 52QYVNDWMAZ7 · pith_short_16: 52QYVNDWMAZ7BBHL · pith_short_8: 52QYVNDW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/52QYVNDWMAZ7BBHLK5X6JNN4XN \
  | 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: eea18ab4766033f084eb576fe4b5bcbb5a9843a1c4d6deb84946baec257d24ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da98ded4203dc79e202ab11bb728b9555c83507bdd55492b157157ca1aec4fd4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-10T14:43:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc498af179fcbcd4d1e6a63e4ab112ad86e86d835a67c90fcc15f8811e466ba9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12156",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}