Pith Number

pith:HVCA7HFU

pith:2026:HVCA7HFU3BTOPXUV4FGRAOYJYE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of an Exterior Third Planet Orbiting $\beta$ Pictoris

Aidan Gibbs, Alexander B. Madurowicz, Alexis Bidot, Aneesh Baburaj, Beck Dacus, Bruce Macintosh, Clarissa R. Do \'O, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Jerry W. Xuan, Marshall D. Perrin, Quinn M. Konopacky, Travis S. Barman

arxiv:2606.23789 v1 · 2026-06-22 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HVCA7HFU3BTOPXUV4FGRAOYJYE}

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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	2026-06-24T00:14:26.440068Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d440f9cb4d866e7de95e14d103b09c12cd820829c462fb6494d4223105f678f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.23789 · arxiv_version: 2606.23789v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.23789 · pith_short_12: HVCA7HFU3BTO · pith_short_16: HVCA7HFU3BTOPXUV · pith_short_8: HVCA7HFU

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/HVCA7HFU3BTOPXUV4FGRAOYJYE \
  | 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: 3d440f9cb4d866e7de95e14d103b09c12cd820829c462fb6494d4223105f678f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9db238d96fb466893106061c7e7e9a1ab1bbbff02a3a5eb41330c2076a18da1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T18:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41be3ebcab8f8fb9265793083167bccf47d0c1246d178746b44538f1a2917437"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.23789",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}