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GCN Circular 10773

Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 422437 is not anything astrophysical
Date
2010-05-18T13:49:50Z (15 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. L. Racusin (NASA/GSFC), N. Gehrels (GSFC)
(for the Swift team):

Using the full data set from recent Malindi downlinks,
Swift-BAT trigger 422437 is not a GRB nor anything astrophysical.
It is due to a chance coincidence of a noise fluctuation
in the rate domain and in the image domain while Swift was
entering the SAA.
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