Pith Number

pith:RMAZEW4U

pith:2024:RMAZEW4U6EJSX2YXYJJZNRO45M

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False Alarm Rate based Statistical Detection Limit for Astronomical Photon Detectors

Albert Wai Kit Lau, George F. Smoot, Leo W.H. Fung

arxiv:2409.15536 v2 · 2024-09-23 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RMAZEW4U6EJSX2YXYJJZNRO45M}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T11:25:39.471472Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b01925b94f1132beb17c25396c5dceb3dedb399363b846346a0dc2f8bb414f5

Aliases

arxiv: 2409.15536 · arxiv_version: 2409.15536v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.15536 · pith_short_12: RMAZEW4U6EJS · pith_short_16: RMAZEW4U6EJSX2YX · pith_short_8: RMAZEW4U

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/RMAZEW4U6EJSX2YXYJJZNRO45M \
  | 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: 8b01925b94f1132beb17c25396c5dceb3dedb399363b846346a0dc2f8bb414f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ddc8231fb925e95f795fb70d6acff5101c0bc9b606c2ba2adf807651fc329289",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2024-09-23T20:37:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a92fcc8c4d39e285e8193a9b8614f7be03577bbd60d9a3c14759dd863c474a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2409.15536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}