GCN Circular 13482
Subject
GRB120714A: Swift/UVOT upper limits
Date
2012-07-15T19:44:42Z (12 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N. P. M. Kuin (MSSL-UCL) and C. J. Saxton (UCL-MSSL) report
on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 120714A
3259 s after the BAT trigger (Saxton et al., GCN Circ. 13464).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Beardmore etal.,
GCN Circ. No. 13470) 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 first
finding chart (FC) exposure and subsequent exposures are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white_FC 3259 3409 147 >19.9
white 3259 28944 2696 >21.8
v 3416 21584 2027 >20.4
b 4237 28344 2135 >21.1
u 4031 27431 1278 >20.7
w1 3826 23171 1058 >21.0
m2 3621 22489 1279 >21.0
w2 4648 17394 1667 >21.5
A possible source was marginally present in the u band during the first two
images, but not seen later, nor in any of the other bands.
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.06 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).