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GCN Circular 7068

Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 296491 is not a GRB
Date
2007-11-12T23:37:57Z (17 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
J. Cummings (GSFC/ORAU), C.B. Markwardt (CRESST/GSFC/UMD), S.D. Barthelmy (GSFC)
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:

The Swift-BAT trigger (trigger=296491) at 14:51:39 UT on 12 Nov 07,
tentatively labelled GRB 071112A (GCN 7057, Stratta et al.),
is not due to a GRB or any other astrophysical source.  This trigger
is due to a noisy detector.
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