Pith Number

pith:PBZLOUEM

pith:2026:PBZLOUEMJGXXBTHLESLVB266QB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Capture of interstellar objects during stellar encounters

Matthew J. Hopkins, Nathan A. Kaib, Sean N. Raymond

arxiv:2607.18551 v1 · 2026-07-20 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PBZLOUEMJGXXBTHLESLVB266QB}

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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	2026-07-22T00:22:53.971573Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7872b7508c49af70cceb249750ebde806b1babcf5b10c91e60819c6b8754cd87

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.18551 · arxiv_version: 2607.18551v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.18551 · pith_short_12: PBZLOUEMJGXX · pith_short_16: PBZLOUEMJGXXBTHL · pith_short_8: PBZLOUEM

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/PBZLOUEMJGXXBTHLESLVB266QB \
  | 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: 7872b7508c49af70cceb249750ebde806b1babcf5b10c91e60819c6b8754cd87

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a94f67d4aa14bdced0c11cb1cdf57c042f0baf9de1fcc3b59a781af13d1accb0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-20T22:34:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "29583583c429cfe0659e596d338cbdf7f44dffd6672460488f0fe9f4e830bcb0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.18551",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}