GCN Circular 20358
Subject
Swift trigger 729600 is not an astrophysical event
Date
2017-01-03T07:02:12Z (8 years ago)
From
Kim Page at U.of Leicester <klp5@leicester.ac.uk>
J. A. Kennea (PSU), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC),
D. Malesani (DARK/NBI and DTU Space) and K. L. Page (U Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift Team:
At 06:32:00 UT, Swift-BAT triggered (trigger number 729600) on what
appears to be noise during the count rate rise associated with entry
into the South Atlantic Anomaly. The image significance is low (6.1
sigma) and there is no significant peak in the light curve. There is
also no detection of a source by the XRT. Thus we believe that this
trigger is not due to a GRB or other astrophysical event.