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GCN Circular 20930

Subject
Fermi GBM trigger 511851891/170322212 is not a GRB
Date
2017-03-22T10:49:11Z (7 years ago)
From
Elisabetta Bissaldi at U.Innsbruk/IAPP <Elisabetta.Bissaldi@uibk.ac.at>
E. Bissaldi (Politecnico & INFN Bari)
reports on behalf of the Fermi GBM team:


"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 511851891/170322212
at 05:04:46.49 UT on 22 Mar 2017, tentatively classified as a GRB,
is in fact not due to a GRB. This trigger is due to local particles."
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