Pith Number

pith:LUCF46EL

pith:2026:LUCF46EL7WXGPVTPFGYKBFCG52

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Visible-Light High-Contrast Polarimetry with MagAO-X: Characterization and Initial Results

Alexander D. Hedglen, Avalon L. McLeod, Briley L. Lewis, Eden McEwen, Jared R. Males, Jaren N. Ashcraft, Jay Kueny, Jennifer Lumbres, Jialin Li, Joseph D. Long, Joshua Liberman, Katie Twitchell, Kyle Van Gorkom, Laird Close, Lauren Schatz, Maggie Kautz, Manxuan Zhang, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Miles Lucas, Olivier Guyon, Parker T. Johnson, Rob G. van Holstein, Rodrigo Pereira, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Tiago Gualberto Bezerra de Souza

arxiv:2608.06579 v1 · 2026-08-06 · astro-ph.IM

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\pithnumber{LUCF46EL7WXGPVTPFGYKBFCG52}

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First computed	2026-08-10T01:11:20.889490Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d045e788bfdae67d66f29b0a09446ee919fa2f9adbece188ac60abd951d93c0

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06579 · arxiv_version: 2608.06579v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06579 · pith_short_12: LUCF46EL7WXG · pith_short_16: LUCF46EL7WXGPVTP · pith_short_8: LUCF46EL

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/LUCF46EL7WXGPVTPFGYKBFCG52 \
  | 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: 5d045e788bfdae67d66f29b0a09446ee919fa2f9adbece188ac60abd951d93c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b47920eefbd4e9056290542f9baed859ce940d30890d89c7f3b1210d76067c68",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T20:48:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62dfc9db8f8191ac25c62c60dbf289200bb01f0a50c2503d0f149be6e37dc201"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06579",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}