GCN Circular 34502
Subject
Swift Triggers 1186280 and 1186291 are not GRBs
Date
2023-08-20T19:24:01Z (a year ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
Via
email
S. Dichiara (PSU), J.D. Gropp (PSU), N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL),
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB) and
M. A. Williams (PSU) report on behalf of the Neil Gehrels Swift
Observatory Team:
Swift BAT triggers 1186280 and 1186291, at 18:28:34 and 19:09:36
respectively on 2023-08-20 UT, were due to misidentification
of known sources (Sco X-1 and the Crab) during a star tracker
loss-of-lock event. They are not astrophysical events.