Pith Number

pith:XWBM7LII

pith:2026:XWBM7LII7J7U2OY6VYE3SYVLA2

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Rings in the Sky: Orbital Data Centres and Potential Impacts to Astronomy and the Sky

Aaron C. Boley, Hanno Rein, Samantha M. Lawler

arxiv:2608.02757 v1 · 2026-08-03 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XWBM7LII7J7U2OY6VYE3SYVLA2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-05T00:39:55.374679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd82cfad08fa7f4d3b1eae09b962ab06b1b2f40ed78154b125a147a65fce9a94

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02757 · arxiv_version: 2608.02757v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02757 · pith_short_12: XWBM7LII7J7U · pith_short_16: XWBM7LII7J7U2OY6 · pith_short_8: XWBM7LII

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/XWBM7LII7J7U2OY6VYE3SYVLA2 \
  | 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: bd82cfad08fa7f4d3b1eae09b962ab06b1b2f40ed78154b125a147a65fce9a94

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9bf62196e800e1c3c3d43690b802d84d736a10deed40c75e1f65f24de737055a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T18:03:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d9f03891e11199db5dcd9f00a0fb988395da7ec676822dbac9f3754135d87b8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02757",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}