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GCN Circular 34705

Subject
Swift Trigger 1192233 is not a GRB
Date
2023-09-16T02:48:12Z (a year ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
Via
email

K. L. Page (U Leicester) and D. M. Palmer (LANL) report on behalf of
the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Team:

Swift Trigger 1192233, at 2023-09-16 02:39:35 UTC, is not
an astrophysical event.  It is due to a misidentifcation
of Swift J1727.8-1613 during a star tracker Loss-Of-Lock event. 

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