Pith Number

pith:QTMHU2G2

pith:2008:QTMHU2G22GQWEWMRKGE7MJB5HY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optical and infrared flares from a transient Galactic soft gamma-ray repeater

1), (10) Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, (11) IAC, (12) Nikolaev State Univ., (13) ARIES, (14) Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, 15), (15) Univ. of Cukurova, (16) INTA, (2) ESO, (3) SAO-RAS, (4) TLS, (5) EFPL, (6) IRAM, (7) Univ. of Jaen, (8) Univ. College, (9) Univ. of Texas, A.C. Wilson (9), Adana, A. de Ugarte Postigo (2, A.J. Castro-Tirado (1), Austin, B. McBreen (8), Chile, Czech Republic, D.A. Kann (4), D. Nuernberger (2), D. Perez-Ramirez (7), D. Sluse (5), Dublin, E. Sonbas (3, F.J. Aceituno (1), France, Germany, G. Melady (8), Granada, India, Ireland, Jaen, J. French (8), J. Gorosabel (1), J.M. Gonzalez-Perez (11), J.M. Winters (6), La Laguna, L. Hanlon (8), L. Pavlenko (14), L. Sabau-Graziati (16) ((1) IAA-CSIC, Madrid, M.A. Guerrero (1), M. Bremer (6), M. Jelinek (1), Nainital, N.A. Nizhelskij (3), Nauchny, Nikolaev, N.N. Bursov (3), Ondrejov, P. Ferrero (4), P. Kubanek (1), R. Cunniffe (1), R. Hudec (10), Russia, S.A. Trushkin (3), S.B. Pandey (13), S. Guziy (12), S. Klose (4), Spain, Spain), S. Schulze (4), S. Vitek (1), Switzerland, T.A. Fatkhullin (3), Tautenburg, Tenerife, Torrejon de Ardoz, T. Shahbaz (11), Turkey, Ukraine, USA, V.V. Sokolov (3)

arxiv:0809.4231 v1 · 2008-09-24 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{QTMHU2G22GQWEWMRKGE7MJB5HY}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:15:28.690151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84d87a68dad1a16259915189f6243d3e0a0e3deaf49b3acc128b18d4b1d56408

Aliases

arxiv: 0809.4231 · arxiv_version: 0809.4231v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0809.4231 · pith_short_12: QTMHU2G22GQW · pith_short_16: QTMHU2G22GQWEWMR · pith_short_8: QTMHU2G2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QTMHU2G22GQWEWMRKGE7MJB5HY \
  | 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: 84d87a68dad1a16259915189f6243d3e0a0e3deaf49b3acc128b18d4b1d56408

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9bec49f434fc7233c630708beb4b8e94fd3852f1ba420d4eca8781ea13ae8feb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-09-24T17:56:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc82ddc502ae0b26659975a5866a743d3722c9a30d26fe538092ca874f1e71b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0809.4231",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}