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GCN Circular 20339

Subject
GRB 161224A: Swift/UVOT Upper limits
Date
2016-12-26T12:12:17Z (8 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and A. Cholden-Brown (PSU)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 161224A
28.3ks after the BAT trigger after a Sun constraint (Cholden-Brown
et al., GCN Circ. 20335). At the position of the XRT source (Cholden-Brown
and
Evans, GCN Circ. 20338) no uv-optical source was found to the upper limits
below.

Preliminary 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
u       44266.0    44786.3     508      >19.99
v       28322.2    50899.7    1770      >19.90
uvw1    35223.6    41032.4     786      >19.91
uvw2    46285.0    46772.6     480      >19.88
uvm2    29234.3    35216.6    1198      >20.48

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.096 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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