Pith Number

pith:BZ2B3GIA

pith:2026:BZ2B3GIA4BRTZNZS4LPP4ZBGRY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VERITAS Observations Contemporaneous with the LHAASO Detection of NGC 4278

A. Duerr, A. Furniss, A. J. Chromey, A. K. Talluri, A. Pandey, C. E. Hinrichs, C. McSorley, C. Poggemann, D. A. Williams, D. Kieda, D. Ribeiro, D. Tak, E. Pueschel, E. Roache, G. H. Sembroski, G. Maier, H. Salzmann, I. Sadeh, I. Thoreson, J. H. Buckley, J. Holder, J. L. Christiansen, J. Quinn, J. T. Bartkoske, J. Valverde, J. V. Tucci, K. Ragan, L. Fortson, L. Rizk, L. Saha, M. A. Ong, M. Errando, M. Escobar Godoy, M. Iskakova, M. J. Lang, M. Kertzman, M. Kherlakian, M. Lundy, M. N. Johnson, M. Ohishi, M. Pohl, M. Santander, M. Splettstoesser, N. Korzoun, O. Hervet, P. Bangale, P. L. Rabinowitz, P. Moriarty, P. T. Reynolds, Q. Feng, R. Mukherjee, R. Shang, S. Feldman, S. Filbert, S. Kumar, S. Kundu, S. L. Wong, S. O'Brien, T. B. Humensky, The VERITAS Collaboration: A. Archer, T. K. Kleiner, T. Yoshikoshi, W. Benbow, W. Hanlon, W. Jin, W. Ning, Y. Chen, Z. Hughes

arxiv:2603.17511 v1 · 2026-03-18 · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{BZ2B3GIA4BRTZNZS4LPP4ZBGRY}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-04T02:00:09.300111Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e741d9900e0633cb732e2defe64268e025f6208c2bf8a5871c4dca9cc918698

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.17511 · arxiv_version: 2603.17511v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.17511 · pith_short_12: BZ2B3GIA4BRT · pith_short_16: BZ2B3GIA4BRTZNZS · pith_short_8: BZ2B3GIA

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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/BZ2B3GIA4BRTZNZS4LPP4ZBGRY \
  | 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: 0e741d9900e0633cb732e2defe64268e025f6208c2bf8a5871c4dca9cc918698

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5507bcd356f3d52d49a0a58ffe6f6c97dd9ab6798ca38cd4fb819f2e9d6da3d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-18T09:15:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d78617964190bc1ad4c9afcfdbc251d59bf520987ac1bb8a075ebf5b3f83237f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.17511",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}