[AAVSO-HEN] Swift-BAT Trigger 276045 is a Cosmic Ray Shower event

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Wed Apr 18 11:31:23 EDT 2007


The following is a GCN Circular circulated via the AAVSO network.
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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  6301
SUBJECT: Swift-BAT Trigger 276045 is a Cosmic Ray Shower event
DATE:    07/04/18 15:30:42 GMT
FROM:    Ann M. Parsons at NASA/GSFC/Swift  <parsons at milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>

D. Palmer (LANL), L. Barbier (GSFC), S.D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
J. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD),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 276045 (C. Guidorzi et al, GCN Circ 6299) is not a GRB.
It is due to a cosmic ray shower in the spacecraft.  All 90 events
recorded in the BAT detector array occurred within a single 100  
microsecond
timestamp interval.



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