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GCN Circular 17932

Subject
Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor triggers bn150615791 and bn150615798 are not GRBs
Date
2015-06-15T22:36:41Z (9 years ago)
From
George A. Younes at George Washington U <gyounes@email.gwu.edu>
G. Younes (GWU) reports on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:

"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggers bn150615791 and
bn150615798 at 18:59:01.20 UT and 19:09:42.11 UT on 15 June 2015,
respectively, tentatively classified as GRBs, are in fact not due to
GRBs. These triggers are due to V404 Cyg (Barthelmy et al. 2015, GCN
17929)."
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