[AAVSO-HEN] Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor triggers 269935914 through 270021937 are not GRBs

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Thu Jul 23 10:17:14 EDT 2009


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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  9702
SUBJECT: Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor triggers 269935914 through 270021937 are not GRBs
DATE:    09/07/23 14:16:50 GMT
FROM:    Andreas von Kienlin at MPE  <azk at mpe.mpg.de>

A. von Kienlin (MPE) reports on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team: 

"The six Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggers 269935914, 
269946189, 269952212, 269957694 and 269963785 observed at 06:11:52.75 UT, 
09:03:07.96 UT, 10:43:30.56 UT, 12:14:52.84 UT and 13:56:23.13 UT on 
22 July 2009  and trigger 270021937 observed at 06:05:35.05 UT on 23 July
2009, in some cases tentatively classified as a GRB, are  not due to a GRBs.

These triggers are all due to local particles events which occurred near
the SAA boundary."




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