Pith Number

pith:XWIMT5WK

pith:2025:XWIMT5WKYNJ3LTKI6AVIGCZWPA

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The History of Galaxy Mergers in IllustrisTNG

Andr\'as P\'eter Jo\'o, Andreas Burkert, Bendeguz Koncz, Istvan Horvath, L. Viktor T\'oth

arxiv:2509.09355 v1 · 2025-09-11 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XWIMT5WKYNJ3LTKI6AVIGCZWPA}

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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	2026-07-05T12:09:34.783935Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd90c9f6cac353b5cd48f02a830b367813dcb8ce5520d776a3b2eaf8e150bf2b

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.09355 · arxiv_version: 2509.09355v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.09355 · pith_short_12: XWIMT5WKYNJ3 · pith_short_16: XWIMT5WKYNJ3LTKI · pith_short_8: XWIMT5WK

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/XWIMT5WKYNJ3LTKI6AVIGCZWPA \
  | 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: bd90c9f6cac353b5cd48f02a830b367813dcb8ce5520d776a3b2eaf8e150bf2b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13bbaa9078469b744689d242fa52212025958fce711cea6d558c073c6c333ffc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-11T11:08:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b915b8be8009645e6a76af533ac7eb29045551fd1b510a48e4a07a39ad45d156"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.09355",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}