GCN Circular 20574
Subject
GRB 170131A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Event
Date
2017-02-02T14:21:17Z (9 years ago)
From
Alice Breeveld at MSSL-UCL <a.breeveld@ucl.ac.uk>
A. A. Breeveld (UCL-MSSL), M. Stamatikos (OSU) and F. E. Marshall
(NASA/GSFC) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 170131A
78368 s after the BAT trigger (Palmer, GCN Circ. 20570) using the UVW2
filter only.
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT source 1 position (Melandri
et al., GCN Circ. 20573) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
However, there is a USNO-B1.0 source at this position (USNO-B1.0
1540-029147), but it is not detected in the UVW2 filter.
The preliminary 3-sigma upper limit using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the initial
exposures is:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
w2 78368 96539 4888 >21.2
The magnitude in the table is not corrected for the large, but uncertain
Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 1.19 in the
direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).