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GCN Circular 13902

Subject

Swift-BAT trigger 536502 is not astrophysical

Date

2012-10-26T00:07:42Z (12 years ago)

From

Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>

S.D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J.A. Kennea (PSU), and P. Romano (INAF-IASFPA)
on behalf of the Swift team report:

Using the data set from T-73 to T+963 sec from recent telemetry downlinks,
Swift-BAT trigger 536502 (GCN 13885Not found
 
 
) is not an astrophysical source.
It is a chance noise fluctuation in the image domain near the location
of SAX J1818.6-1703.