Pith Number

pith:VF5SSR6S

pith:2026:VF5SSR6SXTJHU35R7G3A7H5DT3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

MEGA and SMILES Find Fewer Dusty Galaxies than Expected at Cosmic Noon

Allison Kirkpatrick, Anton M. Koekemoer, Bren E. Backhaus, Casey Papovich, Dale D. Kocevski, Erini Lambrides, Gregory Troiani, Guang Yang, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Kaila Ronayne, Kurt Hamblin, Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein

arxiv:2606.17146 v1 · 2026-06-15 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VF5SSR6SXTJHU35R7G3A7H5DT3}

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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	2026-06-19T16:10:04.366513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a97b2947d2bcd27a6fb1f9b60f9fa39ef2c032af7506f6c475cb343987bfd7ea

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.17146 · arxiv_version: 2606.17146v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.17146 · pith_short_12: VF5SSR6SXTJH · pith_short_16: VF5SSR6SXTJHU35R · pith_short_8: VF5SSR6S

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/VF5SSR6SXTJHU35R7G3A7H5DT3 \
  | 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: a97b2947d2bcd27a6fb1f9b60f9fa39ef2c032af7506f6c475cb343987bfd7ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d66744b3d5f6f70cc95c5a261fa897612a5b9a70c8e864a1213d3abbc7f9f4af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-15T18:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6a5c2c781b7c00cbf05da416caab289e60a7e54c31ac0b41a0684ab3c80d65f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.17146",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}