GCN Circular 17085
Subject
GRB 141121A: Swift/UVOT Detections
Date
2014-11-21T19:03:15Z (10 years ago)
From
Frank Marshall at GSFC <femarsha@khamseen.gsfc.nasa.gov>
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) and A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 141121A
371 s after the BAT trigger (Lien et al., GCN Circ. 17075).
A source consistent with the optical position
(Tanga et al. GCN Circ. 17078)
is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
The preliminary UVOT position is:
RA (J2000) = 08:10:40.63 = 122.66928 (deg.)
Dec (J2000) = 22:13:02.2 = 22.21728 (deg.)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec. (radius, 90% confidence).
The source shows an unusual light curve with little evidence for variability.
The source is detected in all UVOT filters although the detections in v and w2
are not highly significant. 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 371 520 147 >20.1
white 6067 6266 197 20.2 +/- 0.2
v 527 547 19 >18.3
v 15373 16025 635 20.3 +/- 0.3
b 5862 6062 197 19.8 +/- 0.2
u 5562 5714 149 19.4 +/- 0.2
u 27756 28325 556 19.3 +/- 0.1
w1 3830 3897 66 19.4 +/- 0.3
w1 26850 27750 886 19.7 +/- 0.1
m2 21039 21939 886 20.4 +/- 0.2
w2 9514 12083 771 21.2 +/- 0.3
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.05 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).