Pith Number

pith:L3DSF2WJ

pith:2017:L3DSF2WJ5ZG2R2ZUNCY4PSM46S

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Multiwavelength observations of the blazar BL Lacertae: a new fast TeV $\gamma$-ray flare

A. A. Mokrushina, A. B. Pushkarev, A. P. Marscher, G. A. Borman, I. Agudo, J. L. Gomez, M. L. Lister, P. S. Smith, Q. Feng (for the VERITAS Collaboration), S. G. Jorstad, S. N. Molina, T. Savolainen, V. M. Larionov, Y. Y. Kovalev

arxiv:1708.06386 v1 · 2017-08-21 · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{L3DSF2WJ5ZG2R2ZUNCY4PSM46S}

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First computed	2026-07-04T23:56:33.396870Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5ec722eac9ee4da8eb3468b1c7c99cf4913d3e8b06e358cfba3afb6b665091dd

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06386 · arxiv_version: 1708.06386v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06386 · pith_short_12: L3DSF2WJ5ZG2 · pith_short_16: L3DSF2WJ5ZG2R2ZU · pith_short_8: L3DSF2WJ

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/L3DSF2WJ5ZG2R2ZUNCY4PSM46S \
  | 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: 5ec722eac9ee4da8eb3468b1c7c99cf4913d3e8b06e358cfba3afb6b665091dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27509688e265dc8c425fdddf1ac7663bce246c28fcdccd5898e5f945c8a6f1a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-21T19:30:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bfc5cc687ae38a16fca4516cd1bc6716d12d1cf39fe722ff4aa8a757c4187ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06386",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}