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GCN Circular 11683

Subject
Swift/UVOT observations of GRB110208a
Date
2011-02-09T19:16:17Z (13 years ago)
From
Massimiliano de Pasquale at MSSL-UCL <mdp@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
M. De Pasquale (MSSL-UCL) and V. D'Elia (ASI-ASDC) report on
behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 110208a 85s
s after the BAT trigger (D'Elia, GCN Circ. 11674).  No optical afterglow
consistent with the enhanced XRT position (Evans et al, GCN Circ. 11678)
or the Magellan position (Berger et al., GCN Circ. 11681) is detected in 
the initial UVOT exposures or in the summed ones.
  Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system
(Poole et al. 2008, MNRAS, 383, 627) for the first finding chart (FC)
  exposures and subsequent exposures are:

Filter         T_start(s)   T_stop(s)  Exp(s)   Mag

white_FC           85          240     147 	>20.6
white              85        18443    1425 	>21.5

u_FC               298         548     246 	>20.0
u                  298       30010    3111 >	21.2

v                  628       11030    1190 	>20.0
b                  553       24229    2021 	>21.4
w1                 703       29283    2919 	>21.3
m2                 652       28376    1771 	>21.1
w2                 603        6810     393 	>20.5

We note that there is a bright galaxy a few arcminutes from
the GRB position.

The values quoted above are not corrected for the Galactic
extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.02 in the
direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).
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