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GCN Circular 21349

Subject
Fermi GBM trigger 521905898/170716577 is not a GRB
Date
2017-07-16T16:01:41Z (7 years ago)
From
Rachel Hamburg at UAH <rkh0007@uah.edu>
R. Hamburg (UAH) reports on behalf of
the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:

���The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 521905898/170716577
at 13:51:33.74 UT on 16 July 2017, tentatively classified as a GRB,
is in fact not due to a GRB. This trigger is due to local particles."

-- 
Rachel Hamburg
Fermi GBM Graduate Research Assistant
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Space Science Department
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