[AAVSO-HEN] Swift-BAT trigger 345396 is not a GRB
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Fri Mar 6 18:19:52 EST 2009
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 8942
SUBJECT: Swift-BAT trigger 345396 is not a GRB
DATE: 09/03/06 23:19:28 GMT
FROM: Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott at lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:
The Swift-BAT trigger 345396 (at 13:54:24 UT on 06-Mar-09)
(Godet, Circ 8839) is not due to a GRB, nor anything astrophysical.
It is due to a comic ray particle shower event in the BAT instrument.
There were 105 counts in a single 100 microsec timestamp bin.
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