Pith Number

pith:FL6PO7CX

pith:2026:FL6PO7CXKMB2WG7X3V6RYMT2WG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Identifying Cost-Favorable Locations for Cosmic Explorer

Amber Romero, Andrew Saenz, Babatunde Isaac Rotimi, Bram J.J. Slagmolen, Bretton Simpson, Chris Lukinbeal, David H. Shoemaker, Francois Schiettekatte, Geoffrey Lovelace, Jocelyn Read, Joshua B. Russell, Joshua R. Smith, Kiet Pham, Lance Blagg, Laurence Datrier, Matthew Evans, Oscar Romero, Robert Schofield, Sarmad Rameez, Tooba Ansar, Vuk Mandic, Warren Bristol

arxiv:2608.19114 v1 · 2026-08-19 · physics.ins-det · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FL6PO7CXKMB2WG7X3V6RYMT2WG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-20T01:24:57.901541Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2afcf77c575303ab1bf7dd7d1c327ab196ddd3efebbc9f739d2b0acde033eb5d

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.19114 · arxiv_version: 2608.19114v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.19114 · pith_short_12: FL6PO7CXKMB2 · pith_short_16: FL6PO7CXKMB2WG7X · pith_short_8: FL6PO7CX

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/FL6PO7CXKMB2WG7X3V6RYMT2WG \
  | 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: 2afcf77c575303ab1bf7dd7d1c327ab196ddd3efebbc9f739d2b0acde033eb5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fcf6aab81307db8b499d41a447083058a5f3251f7828d4b1924c461e87864a6b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-19T17:09:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21e0d222647b79329a376077acb935cc3e1ce26ff46654f7f5b849e0cf8de596"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.19114",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}