Pith Number

pith:S7A5E3MQ

pith:2026:S7A5E3MQ6PKLECZFGAGWBWF7X6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Summary statistic for pulsar timing arrays

Barak Zackay, Gabriela Sato-Polito, Matias Zaldarriaga

arxiv:2608.05295 v1 · 2026-08-05 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S7A5E3MQ6PKLECZFGAGWBWF7X6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-07T00:46:50.477412Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97c1d26d90f3d4b20b25300d60d8bfbf91d48c98b8680c54e1bb98a67ec33e8f

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05295 · arxiv_version: 2608.05295v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05295 · pith_short_12: S7A5E3MQ6PKL · pith_short_16: S7A5E3MQ6PKLECZF · pith_short_8: S7A5E3MQ

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/S7A5E3MQ6PKLECZFGAGWBWF7X6 \
  | 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: 97c1d26d90f3d4b20b25300d60d8bfbf91d48c98b8680c54e1bb98a67ec33e8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ade8d406fcb54024b020124f2b45f597dd680a8ff230d285aab1a5a7827e12a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T18:00:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7ff9c7768de5aa79d464e3f8b3d91c24f35f5c33702bbadbe2bd3708fc6f52b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}