Skip to main content
Testing. You are viewing the public testing version of GCN. For the production version, go to https://gcn.nasa.gov.
End of INTEGRAL Operations. See news and announcements

GCN Circular 19895

Subject
Swift Trigger 711158 is not an astrophysical event
Date
2016-09-06T02:21:48Z (9 years ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), J. A. Kennea (PSU), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB),
D. M. Palmer (LANL) and B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/PSU) report on behalf
of the Swift Team:

At 02:08:23 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered
on residual sidelobes in the image produced by Vela X-1.  This
does not represent significant astrophysical activity.
Questions or comments?
Contact GCN directly.
Have you found a bug in GCN?
Open an issue.
Want to contribute code to GCN?
Get involved on GitHub.

gcn.nasa.gov

A service of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Looking for U.S. government information and services? Visit USA.gov