GCN Circular 7466
Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 306829 is IGR J16479-4514
Date
2008-03-19T23:03:49Z (16 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC),
D. N. Burrows (PSU), S. T. Holland (CRESST/USRA/GSFC),
S. Immler (CRESST/GSFC/UMD), J. A. Kennea (PSU), C. Pagani (PSU),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), A. M. Parsons (GSFC), J. L. Racusin (PSU),
M. Stamatikos (NASA/ORAU), R. L. C. Starling (U Leicester),
E. Troja (U Leicester/INAF-IASFPA) and D. E. Vanden Berk (PSU) report
on behalf of the Swift Team:
At 22:44:45 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered on
IGR J16479-4514 (trigger=306829). Swift slewed immediately to the source.
This is not a GRB.
[GCN OPS NOTE(20mar08): Per author's request, the "4914" in the Subject
and the body of the circular was changed to "4514". We thank D. Denisenko
for pointing out this typo.]