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GCN Circular 9745

Subject
Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 271275771 is not a GRB
Date
2009-08-07T02:28:00Z (15 years ago)
From
Vandiver Chaplin at UAH/Fermi-GBM <chapliv@email.uah.edu>
E. Kara (Barnard College/NASA MSFC) and V. Chaplin (UAH)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:

�The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 271275771 (090806766)
at 18:22:50 UT on 06 August 2009, tentatively classified as a GRB,
is in fact not due to a GRB. This trigger is due to local particles."
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