GCN Circular 6749
Subject
Swift Trigger 287421: False trigger due to star tracker loss
Date
2007-08-10T20:29:15Z (18 years ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
P. J. Brown (PSU), J. R. Cummings (NASA/UMBC),
P. A. Evans (U Leicester), C. Guidorzi (Univ Bicocca&INAF-OAB),
J. A. Kennea (PSU), F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC),
J. P. Osborne (U Leicester), K. L. Page (U Leicester),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), P. Romano (Univ. Bicocca & INAF-OAB),
T. Sakamoto (NASA/ORAU), G. Sato (GSFC/ISAS) and
M. Stamatikos (NASA/ORAU) report on behalf of the Swift Team:
At 19:54 UT, Swift suffered a loss of star tracker lock, and
the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) then interpreted Sco X-1 as a GRB
(trigger=287421).
The BAT position notice correctly contained the comment line:
COMMENTS: This trigger occured while the StarTracker had lost
lock, so it is possibly bogus.
Star tracker recovery is currently underway.
[GCN OPS NOTE(02July15): Per F.Marshall (Swift Team), the trigger
number in the Subject line was changed from "28742" to "287421".]