Pith Number

pith:SGVQMJ3P

pith:2026:SGVQMJ3PP7AECYAS6TU43SSJUM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A More Complex Than Expected Formation History of the Milky Way's Last Major Merger

Giovanni Carraro, Gra\v{z}ina Tautvai\v{s}ien\.e, Guan-Yu Wang, Hai-Feng Wang, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Thor Tepper-Garc\'ia

arxiv:2606.04462 v1 · 2026-06-03 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SGVQMJ3PP7AECYAS6TU43SSJUM}

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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	2026-06-04T01:09:09.149679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

91ab06276f7fc0416012f4e9cdca49a3359955a68cd9089c49590f428dfb8a66

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.04462 · arxiv_version: 2606.04462v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.04462 · pith_short_12: SGVQMJ3PP7AE · pith_short_16: SGVQMJ3PP7AECYAS · pith_short_8: SGVQMJ3P

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/SGVQMJ3PP7AECYAS6TU43SSJUM \
  | 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: 91ab06276f7fc0416012f4e9cdca49a3359955a68cd9089c49590f428dfb8a66

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2069ae90ecfca03561309b0a1c2707a283f64cdb2c4f31dbad5671dd986f828f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-03T05:15:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a4399b80485cd29fd2db1699255013853f719e51791f5b457f354948a2e7832f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.04462",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}