Pith Number

pith:WJ3RFAXG

pith:2008:WJ3RFAXGMURZIMOD5MBSOIWS2C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of VHE gamma-rays from RGB J0152+017

B. Giebels (for the H.E.S.S. collaboration), D. Nedbal, J.-P. Lenain, L. G\'erard, M. Hauser, M. Raue, S. Kaufmann

arxiv:0808.2466 v1 · 2008-08-18 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WJ3RFAXGMURZIMOD5MBSOIWS2C}

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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	2026-07-04T23:54:38.414099Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2771282e665239431c3eb032722d2d0a72cb01f615e0a8e05a168836648c00e

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.2466 · arxiv_version: 0808.2466v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.2466 · pith_short_12: WJ3RFAXGMURZ · pith_short_16: WJ3RFAXGMURZIMOD · pith_short_8: WJ3RFAXG

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/WJ3RFAXGMURZIMOD5MBSOIWS2C \
  | 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: b2771282e665239431c3eb032722d2d0a72cb01f615e0a8e05a168836648c00e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a04fbb12628e36c660067cbbf88ca1e94698da77b5a5d2d5cba622c089e68a21",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-18T20:00:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4559191b295030072653619001b79b561bfa6d18a6441c98e7979b268a78ef8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.2466",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}