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GCN Circular 34509

Subject
Swift triggers 1186294-1186304 are not astrophysical transients
Date
2023-08-21T14:33:38Z (a year ago)
From
P.A. Evans at U. Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
Via
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P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift team.

Further to GCN Circ. 34502, the subsequent BAT triggers: 1186294, 1186295, 1186296, 1186302 and 1186304 were not caused by astrophysical transients but arose due to the star tracker loss of lock. These events should be disregarded.
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