Pith Number

pith:RWY6BL3Z

pith:2026:RWY6BL3ZYW65ANP2X26MSG52BE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Identifying Host Galaxies of Binary Black Hole Mergers with Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detector Networks

Andrew Levan, Gregory Ashton, Kendall Ackley, Nikhil Sarin, Peter G. Jonker, Sumedha Biswas

arxiv:2602.08459 v1 · 2026-02-09 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RWY6BL3ZYW65ANP2X26MSG52BE}

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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	2026-07-01T14:23:06.982962Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8db1e0af79c5bdd035fabebcc91bba091a5e4313a11e1e24264448b87bc175c7

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.08459 · arxiv_version: 2602.08459v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.08459 · pith_short_12: RWY6BL3ZYW65 · pith_short_16: RWY6BL3ZYW65ANP2 · pith_short_8: RWY6BL3Z

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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/RWY6BL3ZYW65ANP2X26MSG52BE \
  | 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: 8db1e0af79c5bdd035fabebcc91bba091a5e4313a11e1e24264448b87bc175c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "840160ee84fe7100c0005aa44bd910870ebcead7c6780abe68da2e8371d5b7bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-09T10:10:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef75917a3653a0bbfdb3a59078f070e96d8690f6704eb6eeb40bd427f25b8270"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.08459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}