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GCN Circular 12540

Subject
GRB 111107A: Swift/UVOT Afterglow Analysis
Date
2011-11-07T14:21:50Z (12 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N. P. M. Kuin (MSSL-UCL) and M. H. Siegel (PSU)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of
GRB 111107A  73 s after the BAT trigger (Siegel et al.,
GCN Circ. 12534).

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               73          223          147         19.45 +/- 0.10
v                  615         1755          136        >18.7
b                  540         1681          117        >20.0
u                  285         1656          343        >19.9
w1                 664         1631          117        >19.2
m2                 639         5231          299        >19.7
w2                 590         1730          136        >20.0

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.14 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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