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GCN Circular 21092

Subject
Fermi GBM trigger 516459580/170514541 is not a GRB
Date
2017-05-14T16:20:21Z (8 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 516459580/170514541
at 12:59:35.75 UT on 14 May 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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