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GCN Circular 34532

Subject
Swift Trigger 1186908 is not a GRB
Date
2023-08-24T02:39:08Z (a year ago)
From
K.L. Page at U Leicester <klp5@leicester.ac.uk>
Via
email

S. Dichiara (PSU), N. J. Klingler (GSFC/UMBC/CRESSTII),
K. L. Page (U Leicester), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
T. M. Parsotan (GSFC/UMBC/CRESSTII) and M. H. Siegel (PSU) report on
behalf of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Team:

Swift trigger 1186908 (at 02:24:24 on 2023-08-24) was due
to misidentification of the Crab during a Star Tracker
Loss-of-Lock. It is not an interesting astrophysical event. 

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