Pith Number

pith:X2GMXCJR

pith:2026:X2GMXCJRE4ZLIBVPDKGMTXS3RJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Merger Driven or Internal Evolution? A New Morphological Study of Tidal Disruption Event Host Galaxies

Connor Bottrell, Janet N.Y. Chang, Leonardo Ferreira, Lixin Dai, Meng Gu, Renbin Yan, Rudrani Kar Chowdhury, Sara L. Ellison, Scott Wilkinson, Thomas de Boer

arxiv:2602.06839 v2 · 2026-02-06 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X2GMXCJRE4ZLIBVPDKGMTXS3RJ}

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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	2026-06-10T01:09:55.265987Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be8ccb89312732b406af1a8cc9de5b8a7f46de3168f4826b7314571e985e6aad

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.06839 · arxiv_version: 2602.06839v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.06839 · pith_short_12: X2GMXCJRE4ZL · pith_short_16: X2GMXCJRE4ZLIBVP · pith_short_8: X2GMXCJR

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/X2GMXCJRE4ZLIBVPDKGMTXS3RJ \
  | 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: be8ccb89312732b406af1a8cc9de5b8a7f46de3168f4826b7314571e985e6aad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1f3a083d7565573533400c05524ea57cd36c79abf70de6fc533812e9ecbc9f54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-06T16:32:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64fdeb52951c955d9797837f2cee0e4554af9dad4c4cdbf1aed7de05f4a6343e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.06839",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}