Pith Number

pith:YY62NCZP

pith:2026:YY62NCZPX53CRCQAOXQLYM6BRA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lower Your Rates: On Claims of a Binary Black Hole Merger-Rate Crisis

Floor S. Broekgaarden

arxiv:2606.28515 v1 · 2026-06-26 · astro-ph.HE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YY62NCZPX53CRCQAOXQLYM6BRA}

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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	2026-06-30T00:15:16.617115Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c63da68b2fbf76288a0075e0bc33c18811331518c0e89941b3d57f664b31b3de

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28515 · arxiv_version: 2606.28515v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28515 · pith_short_12: YY62NCZPX53C · pith_short_16: YY62NCZPX53CRCQA · pith_short_8: YY62NCZP

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/YY62NCZPX53CRCQAOXQLYM6BRA \
  | 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: c63da68b2fbf76288a0075e0bc33c18811331518c0e89941b3d57f664b31b3de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "166b133ba45c0ca5d6be62c0fcec0de22a50e20fd60ffa15e5d40a883d0e2cd7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-26T18:10:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31568052ae82431b9b485a612d0bed5843ff2b9584ace9061a4bb5c3e0eb6dfb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28515",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}