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GCN Circular 16358

Subject
GRB 140606A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2014-06-06T21:40:25Z (10 years ago)
From
Frank Marshall at GSFC <femarsha@khamseen.gsfc.nasa.gov>
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) and M. C. Stroh (PSU)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 140606A
68 s after the BAT trigger (Stroh et al., GCN Circ. 16353).
No optical afterglow consistent with the BAT position
(Cummings et al. GCN Circ. 16354)
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            68          218          147         >21.1
u_FC               280          530          246         >20.4
white               68         6243          746         >21.6
v                  609         6654          471         >20.2
b                  535         6039          269         >20.8
u                  280         5834          442         >20.8
w1                 833         7064          452         >20.8
m2                1063         6859          413         >20.6
w2                1188         6449          413         >20.8

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.01 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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