Pith Number

pith:2XAZKE54

pith:1999:2XAZKE54NNV7HTQPS2S4HJKF5J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)

A.C. Breslin, A.M. Hillas, B.L. Dingus, B. McKernan, D.A. Carter-Lewis, D.J. Fegan, D. Kieda, D. Mueller, F. Krennrich, G. Hermann, G.H. Sembroski, G. Rochester, H.J. Rose, I.H. Bond, J. Gaidos, J. Grindlay, J.H. Buckley, J.J. Quenby, J. Knapp, J. Lloyd-Evans, J.P. Finley, J. Quinn, K. Harris, M. Catanese, M. Salamon, P. Kaaret, R. Ong, R.W. Lessard, S. Criswell, S. LeBohec, S.M. Bradbury, S. Swordy, T.C. Weekes, T. Sumner, V.V. Vassiliev

arxiv:astro-ph/9907248 v1 · 1999-07-19 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2XAZKE54NNV7HTQPS2S4HJKF5J}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:33:37.723839Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5c19513bc6b6bf3ce0f96a5c3a545ea43a666bf43109df4a602cac0356deb80

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9907248 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9907248v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9907248 · pith_short_12: 2XAZKE54NNV7 · pith_short_16: 2XAZKE54NNV7HTQP · pith_short_8: 2XAZKE54

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/2XAZKE54NNV7HTQPS2S4HJKF5J \
  | 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: d5c19513bc6b6bf3ce0f96a5c3a545ea43a666bf43109df4a602cac0356deb80

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "82b84c8c4bcaf20e5712f6826a351a4d00bc2430b8316259d3fd21da80f6024d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-07-19T13:49:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "031136ddf5832047b2eed0c2b3d9fecc3c17670449aac9b489cecdc0cf775d3e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9907248",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}