[vsnet-grb-info 13605] Swift Trigger 559108 is not astrophysical

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Jun 27 06:43:11 JST 2013


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  14932
SUBJECT: Swift Trigger 559108 is not astrophysical
DATE:    13/06/26 21:43:03 GMT
FROM:    Jamie A. Kennea at PSU/Swift-XRT  <kennea at swift.psu.edu>

N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), S. T. Holland (STScI), J. A. Kennea (PSU),
H. A. Krimm (CRESST/GSFC/USRA), C. B. Markwardt (NASA/GSFC),
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) and S. R. Oates (UCL-MSSL) report on behalf
of the Swift Team:

At 21:08:37 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered on trigger=559108. 
Swift slewed immediately to the location.  However, we believe that this was
an erroneous trigger on a bright source for which the BAT flight software
used the incorrect attitude.  Therefore, we believe that trigger 559108 is
neither a GRB nor the catalog source IGR_J11215-5952, nor any other
astrophysical event. 


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