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GCN Circular 5316

Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 219136 is not a GRB
Date
2006-07-14T22:06:01Z (18 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), S. Barthelmy (GSFC)
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:

Further analysis of the Swift-BAT trigger (trigger=219136)
at 17:26:13 UT on 14 July 2006 (GCN circular 5313, Krimm et al)
confirms that this event is not due to a GRB or any other
astrophysical source.  This trigger is due to a cosmic ray shower event
in the instrument.
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