Pith Number

pith:YXEAJWLT

pith:2026:YXEAJWLTZQIEALNGMZDIDTEQWS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

First detection of C2H+ in the interstellar medium

Arnaud Belloche, Arshia M. Jacob, Britta Redlich, Friedrich Wyrowski, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Karl M. Menten, Kim Steenbakkers, Oskar Asvany, Sandra Br\"unken, Sarwar Khan, Slawa Kabanovic, Stephan Schlemmer, Weslley G. D. P. Silva

arxiv:2608.08014 v1 · 2026-08-08 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YXEAJWLTZQIEALNGMZDIDTEQWS}

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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	2026-08-11T01:21:23.535316Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5c804d973cc10402da6664681cc90b4acfa68315d4dc0fac3e00dc21785f44a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08014 · arxiv_version: 2608.08014v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08014 · pith_short_12: YXEAJWLTZQIE · pith_short_16: YXEAJWLTZQIEALNG · pith_short_8: YXEAJWLT

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/YXEAJWLTZQIEALNGMZDIDTEQWS \
  | 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: c5c804d973cc10402da6664681cc90b4acfa68315d4dc0fac3e00dc21785f44a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f9cd5506d7d2a03c9ad63658ba4a3e6b69189548b860de8479a8ffb8c47b08b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-08T08:51:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0073d1a2c61adde9991023d687eae13cd2ac791a6f568c84ccf86531a32201e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}