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GCN Circular 20099

Subject
Swift Trigger 718766 is not an astrophysical event.
Date
2016-10-22T21:25:27Z (9 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), D. Malesani (DARK/NBI and DTU Space),
D. M. Palmer (LANL) and T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) report on behalf of the
Swift Team:

At 20:45:34 UT, due to a known race condition in the 
Swift/BAT software, BAT  misidentified 4U 1700-377 as 
an unknown transient (Trigger 718766). 

This is not an astrophysical event.
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