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GCN Circular 10826

Subject
Swift Trigger 424040 is not a GRB
Date
2010-06-06T22:13:48Z (14 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
P. A. Curran (UCL-MSSL), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
A. P. Beardmore (U Leicester), D. N. Burrows (PSU),
J. M. Gelbord (PSU), S. T. Holland (CRESST/USRA/GSFC),
J. A. Kennea (PSU), H. A. Krimm (CRESST/GSFC/USRA),
O. M. Littlejohns (U Leicester), S. R. Oates (UCL-MSSL),
C. Pagani (U Leicester), K. L. Page (U Leicester),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), A. Rowlinson (U Leicester),
R. L. C. Starling (U Leicester) and L. Vetere (PSU) report on behalf
of the Swift Team:

At 21:58:36 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered
on a noise fluctuation while entering the SAA (trigger=424040). 
We do not believe this is anything astrophysical. 

The XRT began observing the field at 21:59:58.0 UT, 81.9 seconds after
the BAT trigger. No source was detected in the promptly available XRT
data.
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