[vsnet-grb-info 18534] Swift Trigger 715209 is not an astrophysical event

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Oct 5 05:50:34 JST 2016


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  19982
SUBJECT: Swift Trigger 715209 is not an astrophysical event
DATE:    16/10/04 20:49:49 GMT
FROM:    David Palmer at LANL  <palmer at lanl.gov>

V. D'Elia (ASDC), D. M. Palmer (LANL) and E. Troja (NASA/GSFC/UMCP)
report on behalf of the Swift Team:

Due to a known race condition in the Swift/BAT software, BAT 
misidentified Sco X-1 as an unknown transient (Trigger 715209). 

This is not an astrophysical event. 



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