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GCN Circular 12263

Subject
Swift Trigger 458942 is probably not a burst
Date
2011-08-08T18:13:08Z (13 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC),
M. M. Chester (PSU), J. R. Cummings (NASA/UMBC), V. D'Elia (ASDC),
S. T. Holland (CRESST/USRA/GSFC), C. B. Markwardt (NASA/GSFC),
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. A. Pritchard (PSU), P. Romano (INAF-IASFPA),
T. Sakamoto (NASA/UMBC), C. J. Saxton (UCL-MSSL),
B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/IASFPA) and G. Stratta (ASDC) report on behalf
of the Swift Team:

At 17:37:46 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered
on what is probably noise while entering the SAA.  This is probably
not a GRB or anything astrophysical.
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