Pith Number

pith:3PNANKVZ

pith:2008:3PNANKVZAUYGPCG6GFNVRNH36S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VERITAS Discovery of >200GeV Gamma-ray Emission from the Intermediate-frequency-peaked BL Lac Object W Comae

A. Cesarini, A. D. Falcone, A. Furniss, A. Imran, A. Konopelko, A. McCann, A. Weinstein, A. W. Smith, B. Zitzer, C. M. Hui, D. A. Williams, D. B. Kieda, D. Gall, D. Hanna, D. Horan, D. Pandel, D. Petry, D. Steele, E. Aliu, E. Hays, E. Roache, F. Krennrich, G. Finnegan, G. Gyuk, G. H. Gillanders, G. H. Sembroski, G. Maier, H. J. Rose, H. Krawczynski, J. A. Toner, J. E. Ward, J. Grube, J. H. Buckley, J. Holder, J. Niemiec, J. P. Finley, J. Quinn, J. S. Perkins, K. Lee, K. Ragan, L. Ciupik, L. C. Reyes, L. F. Fortson, M. Beilicke, M. Boettcher, M. J. Lang, M. K. Daniel, M. Kertzman, M. McCutcheon, M. Pohl, M. Schroedter, M. Wood, N. Karlsson, O. Celik, P. Cogan, P. Colin, P. Fortin, P. Kaaret, P. Moriarty, P. T. Reynolds, R. A. Ong, R. Guenette, R. J. White, R. Mukherjee, R. Wagner, S. A. Wissel, S. J. Fegan, S. LeBohec, S. M. Bradbury, S. P. Swordy, S. P. Wakely, T. B. Humensky, T. C. Weekes, T. Ergin, T. Nagai, V. Bugaev, VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, V. V. Vassiliev, W. Benbow, W. Cui, Y. Butt, Y. C. K. Chow

arxiv:0808.0889 v2 · 2008-08-06 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3PNANKVZAUYGPCG6GFNVRNH36S}

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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	2026-05-18T02:15:43.874472Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dbda06aab905306788de315b58b4fbf48897c0e6a80fd3c65f5a30393ad80bd4

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.0889 · arxiv_version: 0808.0889v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.0889 · pith_short_12: 3PNANKVZAUYG · pith_short_16: 3PNANKVZAUYGPCG6 · pith_short_8: 3PNANKVZ

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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/3PNANKVZAUYGPCG6GFNVRNH36S \
  | 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: dbda06aab905306788de315b58b4fbf48897c0e6a80fd3c65f5a30393ad80bd4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e9fbf092b19dfa7d3ce81bbd34122589db1ccd5dd43caccb6ea1cbda628f743",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-06T17:49:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04de20191a15b981e1898e5977c466948dcb9d5a11fb669a7c1ef81b5b5cd1bc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.0889",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}