GCN Circular 15973
Subject
GRB 140311A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2014-03-12T19:27:01Z (11 years ago)
From
Stephen Holland at STScI <sholland@stsci.edu>
S. T. Holland (STScI) and J. L. Racusin (NASA/GSFC) report on behalf
of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB
140311A 9540 s after the BAT trigger (Racusin et al. 2014, GCNC
15944). We do not detect any new source consistent with the Nansan
afterglow position (Xu et al. 2014, GCNC 15947) in any of the UVOT
exposures. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits, using the UVOT
photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373),
for the summed exposures are presented below.
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Filter TSTART TSTOP Exposure Mag
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v 11,358 11,533 171 >19.0
b 37,852 38,759 885 >21.3
uvw1 40,124 40,366 238 >19.8
uvw2 10,542 11,352 886 >21.2
white 9540 10,446 885 >22.0
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The quoted upper limits have not been corrected for the expected
extinction due to the Galactic reddening along the line of sight to
this burst of E(B-V) = 0.03 mag (Schlafly et al. 2011, ApJS, 737,
103). The non-detection in the UVOT data is consistent with a redshift
of z = 4.95 (Tanvir et al, 2014, GCNC 15961).