Pith Number

pith:VDCORNWQ

pith:2012:VDCORNWQITJAWTZAIQXCMXQW4L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multi-wavelength Observations of PKS 2142-758 during an Active Gamma-Ray State

Gino Tosti, Jamie Stevens, Jay Blanchard, Jim Lovell, Joern Wilms, Justin Finke, Katja Pottschmidt, Matthias Kadler, Michael Dutka, Philip Edwards, Roberto Nesci, Roopesh Ojha, Tapio Pursimo

arxiv:1206.1782 v1 · 2012-06-08 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDCORNWQITJAWTZAIQXCMXQW4L}

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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	2026-05-18T03:53:55.485383Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8c4e8b6d044d20b4f20442e265e16e2fe3af349cf5ab1806b9e45f3c8f22e79

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.1782 · arxiv_version: 1206.1782v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.1782 · pith_short_12: VDCORNWQITJA · pith_short_16: VDCORNWQITJAWTZA · pith_short_8: VDCORNWQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VDCORNWQITJAWTZAIQXCMXQW4L \
  | 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: a8c4e8b6d044d20b4f20442e265e16e2fe3af349cf5ab1806b9e45f3c8f22e79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "351839b2dd5aa8299b469b4c41e80408941afe9e75e2c09f98aca173873919aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-08T14:54:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "689df1a8f5aefac41c3ce608c7aff8ca7b4872550952c001bf79fea9228812ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.1782",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}