TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  20099
SUBJECT: Swift Trigger 718766 is not an astrophysical event.
DATE:    16/10/22 21:25:27 GMT
FROM:    Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC  <scott@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>

S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), D. Malesani (DARK/NBI and DTU Space),
D. M. Palmer (LANL) and T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) report on behalf of the
Swift Team:

At 20:45:34 UT, due to a known race condition in the 
Swift/BAT software, BAT  misidentified 4U 1700-377 as 
an unknown transient (Trigger 718766). 

This is not an astrophysical event.