Pith Number

pith:PQY5QDXC

pith:1997:PQY5QDXCE7IAYIEVWE6742VTHV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VERITAS: Very LArge Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System

A.C.Breslin, A.M.Hillas, A.P.Marscher, B.Dingus, B.J.Wilkes, C.Akerlof, D.A.Carter-Lewis, D.J.Fegan, D.Kieda, D.Muller, F.D.Seward, F.Krennrich, G.Fishman, G.G.Fazio, G.H.Gillanders, G.Sembroski, J.E.Grindlay, J.Finley, J.Gaidos, J.H.Buckley, J.Huchra, J.Rose, M.Catanese, M.F.Cawley, M.J.Lang, M.Kertzman, M.Ulmer, M.Urban, P.Gorham, P.Kaaret, P.Slane, R.C.Lamb, R.Ong, S.Biller, S.Matz, S.Swordy, T.C.Weekes, T.McKay, T.Tumer, W.Purcell

arxiv:astro-ph/9706143 v1 · 1997-06-15 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PQY5QDXCE7IAYIEVWE6742VTHV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T14:15:10.403097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7c31d80ee227d00c2095b13dfe6ab33d7bec60ba90f9ba239c9e6eb1f5b5a9d3

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9706143 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9706143v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9706143 · pith_short_12: PQY5QDXCE7IA · pith_short_16: PQY5QDXCE7IAYIEV · pith_short_8: PQY5QDXC

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/PQY5QDXCE7IAYIEVWE6742VTHV \
  | 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: 7c31d80ee227d00c2095b13dfe6ab33d7bec60ba90f9ba239c9e6eb1f5b5a9d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b7b8227020b11b375f3c9f6c510c69f4ba339d0d90af64575d9ac0bfd9db2ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-06-15T20:03:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae0ec46861cc1a781afca86e485c675cfb58f260b85520b50b77b43f28de706e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9706143",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}