GCN Circular 16840
Subject
Swift Trigger 613516 is not an astrophysical event
Date
2014-09-24T01:47:19Z (10 years ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
M. M. Chester (PSU) and D. M. Palmer (LANL) report on behalf of the
Swift Team:
At 01:39:55 UT, a temporary loss of star tracker lock
caused the misidentification of Vela X-1 as an unknown
source (trigger 613516).
This event is not astrophysically significant.