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GCN Circular 13467

Subject
GRB120714A: UVOT non-detection
Date
2012-07-14T09:57:51Z (13 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N.P.M. Kuin, S.R. Oates, and C.J. Saxton (UCL/MSSL) report on behalf
of the UVOT Team.

Swift UVOT took a finding chart exposure of GRB120714A (Saxton et al.,
GCN Circ. 13464) of 150 seconds with the White filter starting 3259
seconds after the BAT trigger. No credible afterglow candidate is
found in the initial data products. At the XRT position (Burrows et al.,
GCN Circ. 13466) a 3-sigma upper limit of 20.4 mag. is found.

No correction has been made for the expected extinction corresponding to
E(B-V) of 0.06.
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