GCN Circular 14363
Subject
GRB 130408A: Swift/UVOT Detection of the Optical Afterglow
Date
2013-04-09T00:21:52Z (12 years ago)
From
Mike Siegel at PSU/Swift MOC <siegel@swift.psu.edu>
M. H. Siegel (PSU) and A. Y. Lien (NASA/GSFC/ORAU) report on behalf
of the UVOT team:
UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 150 seconds with the White filter
starting 155 seconds after the BAT trigger. There is a candidate afterglow in
the rapidly available 2.7'x2.7' sub-image at
RA(J2000) = 08:57:37.30 = 134.40540
DEC(J2000) = -32:21:38.9 = -32.36081
with a 90%-confidence error radius of about 0.5 arc sec. This position is 8.4
arc sec. from the center of the XRT error circle. The estimated magnitude is
16.82 with a 1-sigma error of about 0.04. No correction has been made for the
expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of 0.26.