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GCN Circular 4306

Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 165579 is not a GRB
Date
2005-11-27T17:45:41Z (19 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <Scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. Barthelmy (GSFC) and C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD)
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:

The Swift-BAT trigger (trigger=165579) at 14:06:43 UT on 27 Nov 2005
(reported in O'Brien et al GCN 4305) is not due to a GRB or
any other astrophysical source.  The BAT mask-tagged lightcurve
shows no significant emission on time scales ranging from 100 microsec
to several seconds.
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