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Last night, several news sites published reports of a possible gamma-ray burst in a neighboring galaxy Andromeda. However, a rebuttal soon appeared – this turned out to be a false alarm caused by an unexpected confluence circumstances: telescope BAT (Burst Alert Telescope) space Swift discovered an object whose existence scientists already knew. At the same time, a blackout occurred in Goddard Space Flight Center and Swift data center. That is, the data could not analyze in a timely manner. Kim Page, a scientist from Team Swift, an employee of the University of Leicester, states that “initially this source was taken for a new outbreak, it the intensity was incorrectly estimated due to measurement errors. In fact, it was quite common, constant a source of x-ray radiation – possibly a globular cluster – which has already been cataloged. “According to scientists, the original radiation intensity was based on raw data, and, therefore, others could have affected the correctness of the definition. sources in the M31. Analysis of event data shows that the x-ray intensity from this source is completely consistent with earlier observational data for this source. Therefore, according to the Swift team, this source is not a gamma-ray burst, but rather a constant source in sight BAT.
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