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GCN Circular 14873

Subject
Recent Fermi GBM particle triggers misclassified as GRBs
Date
2013-06-11T16:57:34Z (11 years ago)
From
Hoi-Fung Yu at MPE <sptfung@mpe.mpg.de>
Subject: Recent Fermi GBM particle triggers misclassified as GRBs

Hoi-Fung Yu (MPE) and J. Michael Burgess (UAH)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:

"The 3 recent Fermi GBM triggers, 391784867 / 130601547 at 13:07:44.36 UT
on 1 June 2013, 392214373 / 130606518 at 12:26:10.61 UT on 6 June 2013,
and 392220367 / 130606588 on at 14:06:04.93 UT 6 June 2013, tentatively
classified as GRBs, are in fact not due to GRBs. These triggers are due to
local particles."
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