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GCN Circular 3881

Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 152038 is definitely not a GRB
Date
2005-08-25T19:15:22Z (19 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <Scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. Cummings (GSFC/NRC), C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD)
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:

Using the full BAT data from the recent telemetry downlink,
the Swift-BAT trigger 152038 (at 17:43:37 UT on 25 August 2005)
is not due to a GRB.  This was a cascade shower event from a
high energy cosmic ray in the spacecraft.
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