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GCN Circular 3973

Subject
GRB050914: XRT position probably due to cosmic ray
Date
2005-09-14T12:06:57Z (19 years ago)
From
Kim Page at U.of Leicester <kpa@star.le.ac.uk>
O. Godet, K. Page, J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), J. Kennea (PSU) and D.
Burrows (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift XRT team:

The XRT began observing at 11:28:54 UT, 99 seconds after the BAT
trigger (BAT trigger 155072). The postage stamp image looks like a
cosmic ray rather than an X-ray source. The XRT light-curve terminated
after 2.7 seconds, before the spacecraft entered the SAA.
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