GCN Circular 16243
Subject
GRB 140508A: Swift/UVOT Detection
Date
2014-05-09T19:03:14Z (11 years ago)
From
Frank Marshall at GSFC <femarsha@khamseen.gsfc.nasa.gov>
F.E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) and A. Amarel-Rogers (U. of Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 140508A
68965 s after the GBM trigger (Yu and Goldstein, GCN Circ. 16224).
A source consistent with the optical position
(Singer et al., GCN Circ. 16226) and the X-ray position
(Amarel-Rogers, GCN Circ. 16232)
is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
The preliminary UVOT position is:
RA (J2000) = 17:01:51.95 = 255.46647 (deg.)
Dec (J2000) = +46:46:49.5 = 46.78043 (deg.)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.46 arc sec. (radius, 90% confidence).
Preliminary detections using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the early exposures are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
v 68965 69792 814 19.38 +/- 0.10
b 70632 71427 782 19.59 +/- 0.06
u 69799 70626 814 18.81 +/- 0.05
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.031 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).