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GCN Circular 20626

Subject
GRB 170206B: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2017-02-07T21:35:31Z (8 years ago)
From
Sam Emery at MSSL-UCL <samuel.emery.15@ucl.ac.uk>
S.W.K. Emery (UCL-MSSL) 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 170206B
106 s after the BAT trigger (Lien et al., GCN Circ. 20618).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position
(Evans et al. GCN Circ. 20619)
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           106          255          147         >20.3
u_FC               264          513          246         >19.6
white              106         1534          392         >20.7
v                  594         1411           97         >18.2
b                  519         1510           97         >19.1
u                  226         1484          343         >19.7
w1                 643         1460           97         >18.6
w2                 569         1386           97         >19.1

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.146 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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