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GCN Circular 13011

Subject
GRB 120305A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2012-03-06T17:55:47Z (13 years ago)
From
Frank Marshall at GSFC <femarsha@khamseen.gsfc.nasa.gov>
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) and G. Stratta (ASDC)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 120305A
72 s after the BAT trigger (Stratta et al., GCN Circ. 13004).
No optical afterglow consistent with the enhanced XRT position
(Beardmore et al., GCN Circular 13008)
is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the initial
finding chart (FC) exposures and subsequent exposures are:

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

white (FC)          72          221          147         >20.1
u (FC)             284          534          246         >20.4
white               72         6382          363         >21.1
v                 5158        11729         1082         >19.7
b                  540        18740          428         >20.4
u                  284        24898         1918         >21.2
w1                5567        24288         1968         >20.7
m2               11734        23381         1740         >21.0
w2                6388         6584          193         >20.4

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.43 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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