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GCN Circular 14932

Subject
Swift Trigger 559108 is not astrophysical
Date
2013-06-26T21:43:03Z (12 years ago)
From
Jamie A. Kennea at PSU/Swift-XRT <kennea@swift.psu.edu>
N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), S. T. Holland (STScI), J. A. Kennea (PSU),
H. A. Krimm (CRESST/GSFC/USRA), C. B. Markwardt (NASA/GSFC),
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) and S. R. Oates (UCL-MSSL) report on behalf
of the Swift Team:

At 21:08:37 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered on trigger=559108. 
Swift slewed immediately to the location.  However, we believe that this was
an erroneous trigger on a bright source for which the BAT flight software
used the incorrect attitude.  Therefore, we believe that trigger 559108 is
neither a GRB nor the catalog source IGR_J11215-5952, nor any other
astrophysical event.
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