GCN Circular 16109
Subject
GRB 140413A: Swift/UVOT Observations of the Optical Afterglow
Date
2014-04-14T12:50:51Z (11 years ago)
From
Stephen Holland at STScI <sholland@stsci.edu>
S. T. Holland (STScI) and V. D'Elia (ASDC) report on behalf of the
Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 140413A
2221 s after the BAT trigger (D'Elia et al., 2014, GCNC 16098). The
preliminary UVOT position is
RA (J2000) 04:21:49.23 = 65.45512 (deg)
Dec (J2000) -51:10:58.0 = -51.18278 (deg)
with an estimated uncertainty of 1.79 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence,
statistical + systematic). We detect the optical afterglow at the
position reported by Varela et al. (2014, GCNC 16099). Preliminary
UVOT photometry and 3-sigma upper limits are presented below.
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Filter TSTART TSTOP Exposure Mag Err Sigma
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v 2377 4303 375 >19.7
b 2476 3747 235 >21.0
u 2451 3542 236 >19.9
uvw1 2427 3336 236 >19.8
uvm2 2931 3131 197 >19.5
uvw2 3957 4157 197 >20.1
white 2221 2370 147 >20.3
3752 3951 197 21.10 0.29 3.8
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The quoted magnitudes and upper limits have not been corrected for the
Galactic extinction along the line of sight to this burst of E_{B-V} =
0.01 mag (Schlafly et al. 2011, ApJS, 737, 103). The photometry is in
the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP
Conf. Proc. 1358, 373).