Pith Number

pith:QLWX4GJ7

pith:2026:QLWX4GJ7BXW6GC7Q4BOM3XPTEQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Thermostats, Not Engines: A New Picture of Halo Gas Regulation

Andrew Pontzen, Anik Halder, Hiranya V. Peiris, Joop Schaye, Madalina N. Tudorache, Matthieu Schaller, Sinan Deger, Stephen Thorp

arxiv:2605.16488 v1 · 2026-05-15 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QLWX4GJ7BXW6GC7Q4BOM3XPTEQ}

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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	2026-05-20T00:02:24.889417Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82ed7e193f0dede30bf0e05ccdddf3240725f92cf824ed7573d0100d5547bc74

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16488 · arxiv_version: 2605.16488v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16488 · pith_short_12: QLWX4GJ7BXW6 · pith_short_16: QLWX4GJ7BXW6GC7Q · pith_short_8: QLWX4GJ7

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/QLWX4GJ7BXW6GC7Q4BOM3XPTEQ \
  | 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: 82ed7e193f0dede30bf0e05ccdddf3240725f92cf824ed7573d0100d5547bc74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1526d1d6ef722f264406d67c9c3e7af52d739b2665dc2782dfe2695c80a5ec97",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "63b61a99aec6a9fe4ad70f4b8d88fff7e6069f25474f74659db8a8a1b97bbcd4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16488",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}