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GCN Circular 9705

Subject
Swift Trigger 358354 is not a GRB
Date
2009-07-26T05:10:09Z (16 years ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
A. P. Beardmore (U Leicester), N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC),
K. L. Page (U Leicester), D. M. Palmer (LANL), M. H. Siegel (PSU),
M. Stamatikos (NASA/ORAU), R. L. C. Starling (U Leicester) and
T. N. Ukwatta (GSFC/GWU) report on behalf of the Swift Team:

Around 04:58 UT on 2009-07-26, Swift lost star tracker lock,
leading to misidentification of the Crab as a gamma-ray burst. 

Recovery operations are proceeding.  However, there may be
further spurious triggers from this cause in the coming minutes.
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