Pith Number

pith:XJZIJ7BT

pith:2026:XJZIJ7BTZBUK4VAIEPBZM6XXHQ

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Where Not to Look: A Parametric Avoidance Model for SETI Target Selection

Sahin Torlakcik

arxiv:2606.06692 v1 · 2026-06-04 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XJZIJ7BTZBUK4VAIEPBZM6XXHQ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-06-08T01:04:22.828717Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba7284fc33c868ae540823c3967af73c121eedfbada9b13e779aecc28075b1ed

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.06692 · arxiv_version: 2606.06692v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.06692 · pith_short_12: XJZIJ7BTZBUK · pith_short_16: XJZIJ7BTZBUK4VAI · pith_short_8: XJZIJ7BT

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/XJZIJ7BTZBUK4VAIEPBZM6XXHQ \
  | 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: ba7284fc33c868ae540823c3967af73c121eedfbada9b13e779aecc28075b1ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8af873f4938452aac8bb290b778da82bd52626621a1910de2792799238830fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP",
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-04T20:14:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc347f7dffeb5cd94867f33278af8c2f74d80e0a86e90791344ee70de5a21250"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.06692",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}