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GCN Circular 22049

Subject
Fermi GBM trigger 530617076/171025401 is not a GRB
Date
2017-10-25T16:39:56Z (7 years ago)
From
Elisabetta Bissaldi at U.Innsbruk/IAPP <Elisabetta.Bissaldi@uibk.ac.at>
E. Bissaldi (Politecnico & INFN Bari) and M. S. Briggs (UAH)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:


"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 530617076/171025401
at 09:37:51.82 UT on 25 October 2017, tentatively classified as a GRB,
is in fact not due to a GRB. This trigger is due to a terrestrial
gamma-ray flash (TGF)."
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