Skip to main content
JSON Notices via Email, Kafka Cron Jobs, Submitter Profile, GCN is Hiring. See news and announcements

GCN Circular 19982

Subject
Swift Trigger 715209 is not an astrophysical event
Date
2016-10-04T20:49:49Z (10 years ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
V. D'Elia (ASDC), D. M. Palmer (LANL) and E. Troja (NASA/GSFC/UMCP)
report on behalf of the Swift Team:

Due to a known race condition in the Swift/BAT software, BAT 
misidentified Sco X-1 as an unknown transient (Trigger 715209). 

This is not an astrophysical event.
Looking for U.S. government information and services? Visit USA.gov