GCN Circular 5781
Subject
Swift-BAT Trigger 236481 is a Cosmic Ray Shower event
Date
2006-11-02T09:51:01Z (18 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
L. Barbier (GSFC), S.D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC),
E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC), S.T Holland (GSFC/USRA),
D. Hullinger (BYU-Idaho), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD),
D. Palmer (LANL), A. Parsons (GSFC), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/ORAU),
G. Sato (GSFC/ISAS), M. Stamatikos (GSFC/ORAU), J. Tueller (GSFC)
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:
The BAT trigger 236481 (Holland et al, GCN Circ 5778) is not a GRB.
It is due to a cosmic ray shower in the spacecraft. All 60 events
recorded in the BAT detector array occurred within a single 100 microsecond
timestamp interval.