Pith Number

pith:USG2OQ4W

pith:2017:USG2OQ4WM4XP3O7PPVWA4ZBLPY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of VHE Gamma-Ray Emission from the Binary System LMC P3

H.E.S.S. collaboration, Maria Haupt, Nukri Komin

arxiv:1708.03171 v1 · 2017-08-10 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USG2OQ4WM4XP3O7PPVWA4ZBLPY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:14.594450Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a48da74396672efdbbef7d6c0e642b7e0325f5c75d9922950292fc2258897072

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03171 · arxiv_version: 1708.03171v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03171 · pith_short_12: USG2OQ4WM4XP · pith_short_16: USG2OQ4WM4XP3O7P · pith_short_8: USG2OQ4W

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/USG2OQ4WM4XP3O7PPVWA4ZBLPY \
  | 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: a48da74396672efdbbef7d6c0e642b7e0325f5c75d9922950292fc2258897072

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e0ec63e850be2906bd070a90d5c6400ffe99543a65f737afaf86a2b432c5b6f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-10T11:57:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab210cf18ff4b18b12eeb4d586e0e2b1c24bde2374eed2d27b1cdc5f4b7c3a19"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.03171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}