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GCN Circular 19997

Subject
GRB 161004B: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2016-10-05T16:23:52Z (8 years ago)
From
Frank Marshall at GSFC <femarsha@khamseen.gsfc.nasa.gov>
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) and A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 161004B
82 s after the BAT trigger (D'Ai et al., GCN Circ. 19987).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position
(Evans et al., GCN Circ. 19991) 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            82          232          147         >20.8
u_FC               294          544          246         >19.6
white               82         1886          431         >21.2
v                  624         1937          156         >19.5
b                  550         1862          136         >19.6
u                  294         1836          363         >19.6
w1                 674         1812          136         >18.9
m2                5622         5747          123         >18.8
w2                 600         1736          136         >18.7

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.54 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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