Pith Number

pith:HLJ3ZGSE

pith:2026:HLJ3ZGSE5VDBBJWFO732WHIZRY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Long-Period Transients as a new frontier in time-domain astronomy

Ben Stappers, Dougal Dobie, Hao Qiu, Iris de Ruiter, Kovi Rose, Manisha Caleb, Nanda Rea, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Yogesh Maan, Yuan Mao, Ziteng Wang

arxiv:2606.26572 v1 · 2026-06-25 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HLJ3ZGSE5VDBBJWFO732WHIZRY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-06-26T01:15:35.168846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ad3bc9a44ed4610a6c577f7ab1d198e0d5763d89cdbf605fda294e831f6be4a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26572 · arxiv_version: 2606.26572v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26572 · pith_short_12: HLJ3ZGSE5VDB · pith_short_16: HLJ3ZGSE5VDBBJWF · pith_short_8: HLJ3ZGSE

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/HLJ3ZGSE5VDBBJWFO732WHIZRY \
  | 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: 3ad3bc9a44ed4610a6c577f7ab1d198e0d5763d89cdbf605fda294e831f6be4a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d4f77e04b9b91d311103447e2a57d70d23dcd28e4b7185003d6e8e13ca46d32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-25T03:47:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08a6df9c8efe85e080eb6400afc9b3f4be0968d708e60a8d28a24865aeb53d62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26572",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}