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pith:SIQVQAEQ

pith:2016:SIQVQAEQCV5GRTLK3VQAY3H2UV

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Photon Detection Efficiency Measurements of the VERITAS Cherenkov Telescope Photomultipliers after four Years of Operation

Eliza Gazda, Gregory Richards, Nepomuk Otte, Thanh Nguyen

arxiv:1610.01990 v1 · 2016-10-06 · astro-ph.IM · hep-ex · physics.ins-det

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:54:16.504421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9221580090157a68cd6add600c6cfaa54d94eb42c626c3c86e73350948768a87

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.01990 · arxiv_version: 1610.01990v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.01990 · pith_short_12: SIQVQAEQCV5G · pith_short_16: SIQVQAEQCV5GRTLK · pith_short_8: SIQVQAEQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SIQVQAEQCV5GRTLK3VQAY3H2UV \
  | 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: 9221580090157a68cd6add600c6cfaa54d94eb42c626c3c86e73350948768a87

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2016-10-06T18:41:52Z",
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