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GCN Circular 22975

Subject
Correction: Swift trigger #848890 is GRB 180720B (not GRB 180720A)
Date
2018-07-20T14:48:26Z (6 years ago)
From
Amy Lien at GSFC <amy.y.lien@nasa.gov>
M. H. Siegel (PSU), D. N. Burrows (PSU), A. Deich (PSU),
J.D. Gropp (PSU), J. A. Kennea (PSU), S. J. LaPorte (PSU),
A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), M. J. Moss (George Washington University),
K. L. Page (U Leicester), D. M. Palmer (LANL), B. Sbarufatti (PSU) and
A. Tohuvavohu (PSU) report on behalf of the Neil Gehrels Swift
Observatory Team:

The GRB name in GCN Circ. #22973 should be GRB 180720B because of 
an earlier detection of GRB 180720A from AGILE/MCAL (GCN Circ. #22970).

We apologize for the mistake and any confusion caused by this.
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