GCN Circular 16890
Subject
GRB 141004A: Swift/UVOT Detection
Date
2014-10-05T16:07:41Z (10 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and V. D'Elia (ASDC) report on behalf of
the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 141004A
65 s after the BAT trigger (D'Elia et al., GCN Circ. 16878).The GRB was
also detected by Integral (Mereghetti et al, GCN Circ. 16879), and in the
optical by CAHA (Gorosabel et al, GCN Circ. 16880), TNG (D'Elia et al.,
GCN Circ. 16881), at Monte Agliale Observatory (Ciabatta et al. GCN Circ.
16886) and by RATIR (Littlejohns et al., GCN Circ. 16887). A source
consistent with the XRT position (Osborne et al. GCN Circ. 16883)
is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
The preliminary UVOT position is:
RA (J2000) = 05:06:56.14 = 76.73393 (deg.)
Dec (J2000) = +12:49:11.3 = 12.81981 (deg.)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.43 arc sec. (radius, 90% confidence).
Preliminary detections and 3-sigma upper limits 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
white 65 215 147 17.64 +/- 0.07
v 606 1922 156 18.94 +/- 0.24
b 532 1156 58 18.94 +/- 0.20
u 277 527 246 17.93 +/- 0.09
w1 656 1453 97 18.67 +/- 0.24
m2 806 7273 216 >20.5
w2 582 13683 582 20.69 +/- 0.35
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.32 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).