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GCN Circular 17375

Subject
GRB 150201A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2015-02-02T19:29:53Z (10 years ago)
From
Frank Marshall at GSFC <femarsha@khamseen.gsfc.nasa.gov>
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) and J. K. Cannizzo (CRESST/GSFC/UMBC)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 150201A
93 s after the BAT trigger (Cannizzo et al., GCN Circ. 17368).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position
(Osborne et al. GCN Circ. 17369)
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            93          243          147         >21.0
u_FC               306          556          246         >20.4
white               93          913          239         >21.5
v                  635          829           39         >18.6
b                  561          755           35         >19.8
u                  306          729          265         >20.3
w1                 685          705           19         >19.6
w2                 784          804           19         >19.6

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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