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GCN Circular 8839

Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 340734 is not a GRB
Date
2009-01-22T18:42:03Z (16 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S.D. Barthelmy (GSFC) and T. Sakamoto (GSFC/UMBC)
(on behalf of the Swift-BAT team):
 
Using the full data set from recent telemetry downlinks,
we conclude that Swift-BAT trigger 340734 is not due to a GRB.
This trigger is another outburst from the AXP 1E1547.0-5408
source.
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