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GCN Circular 10515

Subject
Trigger 416226 is probably not a GRB
Date
2010-03-17T05:23:55Z (15 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
L. Vetere (PSU), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (CRESST/GSFC/UMD),
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL), M. H. Siegel (PSU)
and T. N. Ukwatta (GSFC/GWU) report on behalf of the Swift Team:

At 04:43:54 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) image triggered (#416226). 
Swift slewed immediately to the location.  Due to the non-detection of a source
in the XRT and UVOT images, and the marginal image significance (7.0 sigma)
in the BAT, we think this is probably not a GRB.  Further determination
of the reality of this burst will require the analysis of the Malindi data.
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