GCN Circular 12264
Subject
GRB 110808A: Swift/UVOT Detection
Date
2011-08-08T19:04:03Z (13 years ago)
From
Tyler Pritchard at PSU <tapritchard@astro.psu.edu>
T. A. Pritchard (PSU) and G. Stratta (ASDC)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 110808A
120 s after the BAT trigger (Stratta et al., GCN Circ. 12256).
A source consistent with the Enhanced Swift-XRT position
(Goad et al., GCN Circ. 12257) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
The preliminary UVOT position is:
RA (J2000) = 03:49:04.27 = 57.26780 (deg.)
Dec (J2000) = -44:11:40.1 = -44.19448 (deg.)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.64 arc sec. (radius, 90% confidence).
Preliminary detections and 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT
photometric system
(Poole et al. 2008, MNRAS, 383, 627) for the early exposures are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white 120 270 147 19.88 � 0.14
white 57 559 19 18.48 � 0.23
white 3996 4196 200 20.17 � 0.16
v 609 629 19 >18.7
b 535 555 20 18.64 � 0.32
u 279 528 246 18.28 � 0.09
u 683 703 19 17.48 � 0.25
u 6062 6262 196 >20.62
w1 658 678 19 >17.8
w2 585 605 19 >18.3
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.01 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).