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GCN Circular 17060

Subject
Swift Trigger 618391 is not an astrophysical event
Date
2014-11-12T04:33:30Z (10 years ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC) and D. M. Palmer (LANL) report on behalf of the
Swift Team:

At 04:21:55, BAT made an image trigger while the Swift
had lost star tracker lock.  As a result, it mistakenly
identified Sco X-1 as a new source.  Due to a Sun constraint,
Swift will not slew to the calculated position and
current observations will not be affected.
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