Pith Number

pith:VJJK6WO2

pith:2001:VJJK6WO2Q7VPASFUODBDPICKOB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VERITAS: the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System

et al, T.C.Weekes

arxiv:astro-ph/0108478 v1 · 2001-08-29 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VJJK6WO2Q7VPASFUODBDPICKOB}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Combined VERITAS and NuSTAR observations of the gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:17:58.364887Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa52af59da87eaf048b470c237a04a704d4f5fd38ad9598dd6d5f781d4be1a16

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0108478 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0108478v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0108478 · pith_short_12: VJJK6WO2Q7VP · pith_short_16: VJJK6WO2Q7VPASFU · pith_short_8: VJJK6WO2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VJJK6WO2Q7VPASFUODBDPICKOB \
  | 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: aa52af59da87eaf048b470c237a04a704d4f5fd38ad9598dd6d5f781d4be1a16

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1d37e120e9c790cce002b15b9dd65ad65e442bd1ddf1a54753572466365c97e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-08-29T22:15:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "808600ebd99c7bf56c8472fa05900f5ec8412dbd34906492b0aa86dc5dd82ee0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0108478",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}