Pith Number

pith:M55QBD2W

pith:2026:M55QBD2WLZ7QF34TAKBG4CKH7Y

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A cosmic collision in the making: JWST/NIRISS reveals a merging and maturing protocluster core at z~3 around a red quasar

A. Vayner, C. Bertemes, D. S. N. Rupke, D. Wylezalek, G. Noirot, L. Gatto, N. L. Zakamska, R. Hviding, S. Sankar, S. Veilleux, W. Liu, Y. Chen, Y. Ishikawa

arxiv:2608.10070 v1 · 2026-08-10 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M55QBD2WLZ7QF34TAKBG4CKH7Y}

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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	2026-08-12T00:22:43.217091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

677b008f565e7f02ef9302826e0947fe0cf16469462e400833caed8ed3e1da86

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10070 · arxiv_version: 2608.10070v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10070 · pith_short_12: M55QBD2WLZ7Q · pith_short_16: M55QBD2WLZ7QF34T · pith_short_8: M55QBD2W

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/M55QBD2WLZ7QF34TAKBG4CKH7Y \
  | 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: 677b008f565e7f02ef9302826e0947fe0cf16469462e400833caed8ed3e1da86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a04723d3870ea70d58719f84de35d275eded67e93905f809a012e9475d9f964",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1d895eff7e64e50b0c00259a3b7c96e57665108220a5cd5bb186738e3b0c767"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}