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GCN Circular 14949

Subject
GRB 130627A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2013-06-28T21:31:12Z (11 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N. P. M. Kuin and S. R. Oates (UCL-MSSL) report on behalf of the
Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 130627A
2979 s after the BAT trigger (Oates et al., GCN Circ. 14933, GCN Circ
14934).

No optical afterglow consistent with the (enhanced) XRT
position (Kennea et al. GCN Circ. 14935; Osborne et al. GCN Circ.
14945) 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          2979         3129          147         >20.5
white             2979        10701         1229         >22.1
v                 3136         4772          393         >19.7
b                 3956         9788         1125         >21.3
u                 3751         5386          393         >20.5
w1                3546         5182          393         >20.4
m2                3341         4976          393         >20.4
w2                4367        11202          684         >21.2

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.09 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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