Pith Number

pith:VN3SRNZP

pith:2015:VN3SRNZP4WKNR4GCBMMODLGTJF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VERITAS detection of $\gamma$-ray flaring activity from the BL Lac object 1ES 1727+502 during bright moonlight observations

A. Archer, A. Bouvier, A. Falcone, A. Furniss, A. McCann, A. N. Otte, A. O'Faol\'ain de Bhr\'oithe, A. Popkow, A. Varlotta, A. Weinstein, A. Wilhelm, A. W. Smith, B. Zitzer (The VERITAS Collaboration), C. A. Johnson, D. A. Williams, D. Hanna, D. Kieda, D. Nieto, D. Staszak, E. Pueschel, E. Roache, F. Krennrich, G. Gyuk, G. H. Gillanders, G. H. Sembroski, G. Maier, G. T. Richards, H. Fleischhack, H. J. Dickinson, H. Prokoph, I. Telezhinsky, J. Biteau, J. D. Eisch, J. Dumm, J. Grube, J. Holder, J. Millis, J. P. Finley, J. Quinn, J. Tyler, J. V Cardenzana, J. V. Tucci, K. Meagher, K. Ragan, K. Shahinyan, L. Ciupik, L. C. Reyes, L. Fortson, M. Beilicke, M. Cerruti, M. Errando, M. J. Lang, M. Kertzman, M. Krause, M. P. Connolly, M. Pohl, M. Santander, N. H{\aa}kansson, N. Park, P. Fortin, P. Kaaret, P. Kar, P. Moriarty, P. T. Reynolds, Q. Feng, R. A. Ong, R. Bird, R. Mukherjee, R. Welsing, S. Archambault, S. Griffin, S. Kumar, S. McArthur, S. P. Wakely, S. T. Griffiths, S. Vincent, T. B. Humensky, V. Bugaev, W. Benbow, W. Cui, X. Chen, Y. Khassen, Z. D. Hughes

arxiv:1506.06246 v1 · 2015-06-20 · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{VN3SRNZP4WKNR4GCBMMODLGTJF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:35:46.683797Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab7728b72fe594d8f0c20b18e1acd3495331095a5fc05850d6228cb43db7e43b

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.06246 · arxiv_version: 1506.06246v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.06246 · pith_short_12: VN3SRNZP4WKN · pith_short_16: VN3SRNZP4WKNR4GC · pith_short_8: VN3SRNZP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VN3SRNZP4WKNR4GCBMMODLGTJF \
  | 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: ab7728b72fe594d8f0c20b18e1acd3495331095a5fc05850d6228cb43db7e43b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19cccc26216bf1aa0026f3ef867414bbdf9c3eec19cc4deaa805ba8ddeb98403",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-20T14:32:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c20e6d881184a51a7ac8538c96b671dbbe6f7e6c1bff84b6e215bbc8b92536d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.06246",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}