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GCN Circular 13858

Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 535733 is not astrophysical
Date
2012-10-12T00:51:53Z (12 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S.D. Barthelmy (GSFC), C.B. Markwardt (GSFC), J.A. Kennea (PSU)
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team report:

Using the data set from T-239 to T+455 sec from recent telemetry downlinks,
Swift-BAT trigger 535733 (GCN 13843) is not an astrophysical source.
It is a chance noise fluctuation in the image domain near the
location of SAX J1828.5-1037.
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