Pith Number

pith:V4USVW5F

pith:2005:V4USVW5FHSGSCN656VFPF2QZDF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of very high energy gamma-rays associated with an X-ray binary

et al, H.E.S.S. Collaboration: F. Aharonian

arxiv:astro-ph/0508298 v1 · 2005-08-12 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4USVW5FHSGSCN656VFPF2QZDF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:47:43.403555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af292adba53c8d2137ddf54af2ea191940a5803a0dd5d97b3e6217d1607e4e50

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0508298 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0508298v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0508298 · pith_short_12: V4USVW5FHSGS · pith_short_16: V4USVW5FHSGSCN65 · pith_short_8: V4USVW5F

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/V4USVW5FHSGSCN656VFPF2QZDF \
  | 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: af292adba53c8d2137ddf54af2ea191940a5803a0dd5d97b3e6217d1607e4e50

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "efe1f160125940f29acf4d93db2ac4f46a70dc2060946817831b621b8439f3b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-08-12T21:07:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca31565a85e77ac79dd27923722265e39ed7acc64703ee96386defcfa9df079c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0508298",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}