Pith Number

pith:QLQ6IS6C

pith:2026:QLQ6IS6CMDJH7DFD7JGDO3UOMT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Investigation and Mitigation of a Prominent Off-Axis Stray Light Path in Rubin Observatory Commissioning

Aaron E. Watkins, Aashay Pai, Alessio Taranto, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Anastasia Alexov, Brian Stalder, Christian Aguilar, Douglas R. Neill, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Hannah M. M. Pollek, John Andrew, Joshua E. Meyers, Lee S. Kelvin, Luca Rosignoli, Robert H. Lupton

arxiv:2606.31939 v1 · 2026-06-30 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QLQ6IS6CMDJH7DFD7JGDO3UOMT}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-01T01:18:26.011514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82e1e44bc260d27f8ca3fa4c376e8e64fd2924965917a18676f93801f4f50391

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.31939 · arxiv_version: 2606.31939v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.31939 · pith_short_12: QLQ6IS6CMDJH · pith_short_16: QLQ6IS6CMDJH7DFD · pith_short_8: QLQ6IS6C

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/QLQ6IS6CMDJH7DFD7JGDO3UOMT \
  | 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: 82e1e44bc260d27f8ca3fa4c376e8e64fd2924965917a18676f93801f4f50391

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9ec3b6644eb8dd0711163de9b3e2e5a192a2bee1db2ea012d5226d38f8744e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-30T16:44:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7744d1e76ebdad3d8cf98333219f8aecfa7a0b91e8bfe514c10911b7784e99b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.31939",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}