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GCN Circular 11095

Subject
Swift/UVOT observations of GRB100814A
Date
2010-08-14T15:26:23Z (14 years ago)
From
Patricia Schady at MPE/Swift <msslba@googlemail.com>
M. De Pasquale (MSSL-UCL) and C.J. Saxton (MSSL-UCL)
report on the behalf of the Swift UVOT team:

��The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of
GRB 100814A 153 s after the BAT trigger ��(Beardmore et
al. 2010, GCN Circ. 11087) with a finding chart in the u
filter. We detect the optical afterglow in all filters except
uvw2. The refined UVOT position is

��RA ��(J2000) = 01h 29m 53.61s = 22.47338
��Dec (J2000) = -17d 59m 43.6s = -17.99545


with an estimated uncertainty of 0.6 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence,
statistical + systematic). This is about 1.5 arcsec north of the
UVOT-enhanced XRT position (Beardmore et al. 2010, GCN Circ.
11092).

��Preliminary magnitudes, and 3-sigma upper limits for detecting a
source in the finding charts and in co-added images are

Filter �� �� ��T_start �� T_stop �� ��Exp(s) �� �� ��Mag �� Err
---------------------------------------------------------------------
�� ��u (fc) �� �� ��153 �� �� ��403 �� �� ��  246 ��  �� 16.80  0.06
�� ��v �� �� �� �� ��  458 �� ���� 627 �� �� ��  ��39 ��  �� ��17.91  0.32
�� ��b �� �� �� �� ��  408 �� ���� 721 �� ��  �� ��53 �� ��  ��21.22  0.20
�� ��u �� �� �� �� ��  153 �� ���� 701 �� ��  ��285 �� ��  ��16.84  0.06
��uvw1 �� �� �� ��507 �� �� ��676 �� �� ��  ��39 �� �� �� 17.33  0.20
��uvm2 �� �� �� 483 �� ��   651 �� �� ��   39 �� ��  ��17.86  0.31
��uvw2 �� �� �� ��434 �� ��  602 �� �� ��    39 �� ��>18.52 ��3-sigma UL
��white �� �� ��3858 �� �� 4211 �� �� ��  344 �� �� ��18.63  0.07
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��The quoted magnitudes and upper limits have not been corrected
for the expected Galactic extinction along the line of sight
corresponding to a reddening of E_{B-V} = 0.02 mag (Schlegel, et al.,
1998, ApJS, 500, 525). ��All photometry is on the UVOT photometry
system described in Poole et al. (2008, MNRAS, 383, 627).
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