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GCN Circular 8942

Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 345396 is not a GRB
Date
2009-03-06T23:19:28Z (16 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:
 
The Swift-BAT trigger 345396 (at 13:54:24 UT on 06-Mar-09)
(Godet, Circ 8839) is not due to a GRB, nor anything astrophysical.
It is due to a comic ray particle shower event in the BAT instrument.
There were 105 counts in a single 100 microsec timestamp bin.
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