[vsnet-grb-info 7560] Swift-BAT Trigger 348781 is not a GRB

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Apr 9 21:17:46 JST 2009


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  9118
SUBJECT: Swift-BAT Trigger 348781 is not a GRB
DATE:    09/04/09 12:17:36 GMT
FROM:    Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC  <scott at lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>

S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
D. Grupe (PSU)
(for the Swift-BAT and -XRT teams):
 
Swift-BAT trigger 348781 (Grupe, et al, Circ 9113) is not a GRB.
Analysis of the full data set from recent telemetry downlinks shows
the trigger to be due to coincident noise fluctuations in the rate domain
(due to the background increasing while entering the SAA) and the image domain.

Followup observations by the XRT (1800 sec in PC mode) did not detect any source.


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