Pith Number

pith:VRYTZMM4

pith:2017:VRYTZMM4ISKRPYO3V64TCOT2HM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Galaxy Formation Through Filamentary Accretion at z=6.1

A. Ferrara, C. J. Willott, C. L. Carilli, G. C. Jones, J. Wagg, R. Wang

arxiv:1706.09968 v1 · 2017-06-29 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRYTZMM4ISKRPYO3V64TCOT2HM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:49.238936Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac713cb19c449517e1dbafb9313a7a3b25db6985700d8e0d17fed9547f048973

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.09968 · arxiv_version: 1706.09968v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.09968 · pith_short_12: VRYTZMM4ISKR · pith_short_16: VRYTZMM4ISKRPYO3 · pith_short_8: VRYTZMM4

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/VRYTZMM4ISKRPYO3V64TCOT2HM \
  | 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: ac713cb19c449517e1dbafb9313a7a3b25db6985700d8e0d17fed9547f048973

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40a38509583698a582f4744f01b336f16fa725867ddce5500473bfe04d362db1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-29T22:07:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e68c6ffd6ef0a1a9ceb3a4e1c03a51c29cd5511147e0434195441c95f9d83ce6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.09968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}