Pith Number

pith:D5TZM4EZ

pith:2026:D5TZM4EZS6AQIDSBREN6QNTCMN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Disentangling the Distant Stellar Halo Using K-Giants in the DESI Year 3 Data

Aaron M. Meisner, Alexander H. Riley, Amanda Bystr\"om, Andrew P. Cooper, Anthony Kremin, Axel de la Macorra, Benjamin A. Weaver, Carlos Allende Prieto, David Brooks, Davide Bianchi, David Schlegel, David Sprayberry, Dick Joyce, Enrique Gazta\~naga, Eusebio Sanchez, Francisco Prada, Gaston Gutierrez, Graziano Rossi, Gregory Tarl\'e, Guillaume Thomas, Hu Zou, Ignasi P\'erez-R\`afols, Jessica N. Aguilar, Joan Najita, Joseph H. Silber, Laurent Le Guillou, Marc Manera, Martin Landriau, Michael Schubnell, Mika Lambert, Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Oleg Y. Gnedin, Peter Doel, Ramon Miquel, Ray Sharples, Robert Kehoe, Ruizhi Zhang, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Sergey E. Koposov, Songting Li, Steven Ahlen, Theodore Kisner, Todd Claybaugh, Wenting Wang, Will Percival

arxiv:2606.18849 v1 · 2026-06-17 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D5TZM4EZS6AQIDSBREN6QNTCMN}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-19T16:11:49.512849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f679670999781040e41891be836626358e6a2b388a4692f1753729d18e163db

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18849 · arxiv_version: 2606.18849v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18849 · pith_short_12: D5TZM4EZS6AQ · pith_short_16: D5TZM4EZS6AQIDSB · pith_short_8: D5TZM4EZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/D5TZM4EZS6AQIDSBREN6QNTCMN \
  | 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: 1f679670999781040e41891be836626358e6a2b388a4692f1753729d18e163db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93f41095e9440bc62ae6945f221f982ba043f8b6ae41ef2ef3fcbe28e4a4a526",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-17T09:29:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "767fa8d903773d0f6749fc0f2d344afb78122629a5dbd2a33315be18ceb60af0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.18849",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}