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GCN Circular 18651

Subject
Fermi GBM trigger 470375959/151128166 is not a GRB
Date
2015-11-28T06:34:49Z (9 years ago)
From
Elisabetta Bissaldi at U.Innsbruk/IAPP <Elisabetta.Bissaldi@uibk.ac.at>
E. Bissaldi (INFN Bari)
reports on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:

"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger
470375959/151128166 at 03:59:15.95 UT on 28 November 2015,
tentatively classified as a GRB, is in fact not due to a GRB.

This trigger is due to particle activity."
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