GCN Circular 15362
Subject
GRB 131018B: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Event
Date
2013-10-20T21:17:55Z (13 years ago)
From
Samantha Oates at MSSL <sro@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
S. R. Oates (MSSL-UCL) and P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 131018B
83 ks after the LAT trigger (Vianello et al., GCN Circ. 15357).
No new optical candidate is detected within the LAT
error circle (Vianello et al., GCN Circ. 15357) in the initial UVOT exposures.
We note an optical source within the error circle of the
candidate XRT position (D'Avanzo et al., GCN Circ. 15361),
which is found in the USNO-B1 catalogue.
Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the initial exposures are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white 90363 91160 785 >21.7
v 91168 91427 255 >19.4
u 88969 95244 1300 >20.6
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.58 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).