GCN Circular 4721
Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 180931 is not a GRB
Date
2006-02-09T22:17:14Z (19 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <Scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. Barthelmy (GSFC), L. Barbier (GSFC), J. Cummings (GSFC/ORAU),
E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC), D. Hullinger (GSFC/UMD),
H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD), D. Palmer (LANL),
A. Parsons (GSFC), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/ORAU), G. Sato (ISAS),
J. Tueller (GSFC)
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:
The Swift-BAT trigger (trigger=180931) at 19:08:55 UT on 09 Feb 2006
is not due to a GRB or any other astrophysical source. This trigger
is due to a cosmic ray shower event in the instrument.