Pith Number

pith:ARNM5EUV

pith:2022:ARNM5EUVP4AS3EZGVUJVSWXCEE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distant Echoes of the Milky Way's Last Major Merger

Alexander P. Ji, Ana Bonaca, Benjamin D. Johnson, Charlie Conroy, Dennis Zaritsky, Hans-Walter Rix, Jiwon Jesse Han, Phillip Cargile, Rohan P. Naidu, Turner Woody, Vedant Chandra, Yuan-Sen Ting

arxiv:2212.00806 v2 · 2022-12-01 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ARNM5EUVP4AS3EZGVUJVSWXCEE}

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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	2026-07-05T06:26:17.461174Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

045ace92957f012d9326ad13595ae2213dc3218b4eb959ba63dea5fa5864a365

Aliases

arxiv: 2212.00806 · arxiv_version: 2212.00806v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.00806 · pith_short_12: ARNM5EUVP4AS · pith_short_16: ARNM5EUVP4AS3EZG · pith_short_8: ARNM5EUV

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/ARNM5EUVP4AS3EZGVUJVSWXCEE \
  | 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: 045ace92957f012d9326ad13595ae2213dc3218b4eb959ba63dea5fa5864a365

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2cc3b2233e40322b5ffdaed6da4419f3360c1717f05444e0368459eca638d4a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2022-12-01T19:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e673f167af8bcad9f7c1bf72cfce2963d1684a96c0f18e7c37dd257753f2b79b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2212.00806",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}