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GCN Circular 19982

Subject
Swift Trigger 715209 is not an astrophysical event
Date
2016-10-04T20:49:49Z (8 years ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
V. D'Elia (ASDC), D. M. Palmer (LANL) and E. Troja (NASA/GSFC/UMCP)
report on behalf of the Swift Team:

Due to a known race condition in the Swift/BAT software, BAT 
misidentified Sco X-1 as an unknown transient (Trigger 715209). 

This is not an astrophysical event.
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