[vsnet-grb-info 3962] Swift-BAT Trigger 236481 is a Cosmic Ray Shower event

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  5781
SUBJECT: Swift-BAT Trigger 236481 is a Cosmic Ray Shower event
DATE:    06/11/02 09:51:01 GMT
FROM:    Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC  <scott at lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>

L. Barbier (GSFC), S.D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC),
E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC), S.T Holland (GSFC/USRA),
D. Hullinger (BYU-Idaho), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD),
D. Palmer (LANL), A. Parsons (GSFC), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/ORAU),
G. Sato (GSFC/ISAS), M. Stamatikos (GSFC/ORAU), J. Tueller (GSFC)
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:
 
The BAT trigger 236481 (Holland et al, GCN Circ 5778) is not a GRB.
It is due to a cosmic ray shower in the spacecraft.  All 60 events
recorded in the BAT detector array occurred within a single 100 microsecond
timestamp interval.