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GCN Circular 4117

Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 160640 is not a real GRB
Date
2005-10-21T15:31:17Z (19 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <Scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
A. Retter (PSU), L. Barbier (GSFC), S. Barthelmy (GSFC),
N. Gehrels (GSFC), J. Kennea (PSU), C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD),
K. Page (U Leicester), D. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (GSFC)
on behalf of the Swift team:

At 14:45:03 UT, Swift-BAT triggered (trigger=160640) on a hot pixel
combined with a chance fluctuation in the image domain.
This trigger is not a real GRB or any astrophysical source.
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