GCN Circular 7425
Subject
Swift Trigger 306745 is not a GRB
Date
2008-03-19T02:05:19Z (17 years ago)
From
David Palmer at LANL <palmer@lanl.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), S. T. Holland (CRESST/USRA/GSFC),
J. A. Kennea (PSU), C. Pagani (PSU), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
A. M. Parsons (GSFC), J. L. Racusin (PSU), M. Stamatikos (NASA/ORAU)
and E. Troja (U Leicester/INAF-IASFPA) report on behalf of the Swift
Team:
Shortly before 2008-03-18 01:50 UT, Swift lost star tracker lock.
This caused the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) to detect Sco X-1 at the
wrong location, leading to trigger 306745. This is not a GRB.
Star tracker recovery operations are in progress.