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GCN Circular 19325

Subject
Fermi GBM trigger 482632364/160418023 is not a GRB
Date
2016-04-18T09:29:49Z (9 years ago)
From
Elisabetta Bissaldi at U.Innsbruk/IAPP <Elisabetta.Bissaldi@uibk.ac.at>
E. Bissaldi (Politecnico & INFN Bari) and E. Burns (UAH)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:

"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 482632364/160418023
at 00:32:40.26 UT on 18 April 2016, tentatively classified as a GRB,
is in fact not due to a GRB.

This trigger is due to solar activity."
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