GCN Circular 13612
Subject
Swift Trigger 530441 is a false trigger
Date
2012-08-09T06:52:00Z (13 years ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
B. N. Barlow (PSU), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
J. R. Cummings (NASA/UMBC), C. Gronwall (PSU), D. M. Palmer (LANL) and
P. Romano (INAF-IASFPA) report on behalf of the Swift Team:
At 06:14:54 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) found a
marginal-significance peak in the vicinity of IGR J16283-4838
(trigger=530441). Swift did not immediately slew to the burst
due to the low priority the onboard software gives to this source.
The BAT on-board calculated location is
RA, Dec 246.932, -48.541 which is
RA(J2000) = 16h 27m 44s
Dec(J2000) = -48d 32' 26"
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including
systematic uncertainty). As is usual for an image trigger, there
is no obvious signal in the light curve.
This image peak is almost certainly a noise fluctuation in an
image. As part of an ongoing sensitivity enhancement program,
we generate a GCN notice whenever a marginal significance
peak is found within 12 arcminutes of a source in the on-board
catalog. Given the low significance (6.43 sigma) and inconsistent
position (0.126 degrees from the catalogued position),
there is no reason to believe that this peak is due to the
astrophysical source.