Pith Number

pith:LBKEJQZ3

pith:2026:LBKEJQZ3P6OR34AUI67HSJ5OR6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

They Won't Be Giants: Missing Metal-Rich RGB Stars in Gaia Data Indicate Truncated Stellar Evolution

Andrew R. Casey, Jos\'e Eduardo M\'endez Delgado, Jos\'e G. Fern\'andez-Trincado, Madeline Howell, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Yuxi Lu

arxiv:2608.06204 v1 · 2026-08-06 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LBKEJQZ3P6OR34AUI67HSJ5OR6}

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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	2026-08-07T01:40:56.184722Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

585444c33b7f9d1df01447be7927ae8f976cd59d925ad11ac818ed6a0009913a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06204 · arxiv_version: 2608.06204v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06204 · pith_short_12: LBKEJQZ3P6OR · pith_short_16: LBKEJQZ3P6OR34AU · pith_short_8: LBKEJQZ3

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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/LBKEJQZ3P6OR34AUI67HSJ5OR6 \
  | 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: 585444c33b7f9d1df01447be7927ae8f976cd59d925ad11ac818ed6a0009913a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be0c92ae995d60ae78f698c94f6a3d165f57f78e56fb7e779dd02ff1a9dad5e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T15:58:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc11f71d08b048517a30f59b59ff597f8b1c7d4ed1d8bcf28b1056138d9cb9f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06204",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}