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GCN Circular 13240

Subject
Swift Trigger 519874 is a noise event
Date
2012-04-11T13:02:05Z (13 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC) on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:
 
Using the data set from T-60 to T+243 sec from recent telemetry downlinks,
we confirm that BAT trigger 519874 (Barthelmy, et al., GCN Circ. 13238)
is due to noise in the BAT detector (specifically a cosmic ray shower
in the instrument).
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