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GCN Circular 26554

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S191222n: not observable by Fermi-GBM
Date
2019-12-22T14:27:01Z (4 years ago)
From
Rachel Hamburg at UAH <rkh0007@uah.edu>
R. Hamburg (UAH) reports on behalf of the Fermi-GBM Team and the
GBM-LIGO/Virgo group:

At the time of S191222n (GCN 26543), Fermi was passing through the South
Atlantic Anomaly from 17.8 minutes prior to 9.3 minutes after the trigger
time; therefore the GBM detectors were disabled.
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