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GCN Circular 19528

Subject
Swift Trigger 690738 is not an astrophysical event
Date
2016-06-12T16:49:31Z (9 years ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL)
and M. H. Siegel (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift Team:

Swift trigger 690738 (at 16:24:32 UT) is due to an on-board
misidentification of Sco X-1.  It does not represent an
astrophysical event.
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