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GCN Circular 21874

Subject
GRB 170912A: Swift/UVOT Upper-Limits
Date
2017-09-12T17:07:43Z (7 years ago)
From
Sam LaPorte at PSU <sjl5346@psu.edu>
GRB 170912A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits

S. J. LaPorte (PSU) and Tohuvavohu (PSU)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 170912A
122 s after the BAT trigger (Tohuvavohu et al., GCN Circ. 21861).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position
(Goad et al. GCN Circ. 21863)
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           122          272          147         >20.9
u_FC               335          585          246         >19.4
white              122         1362          373         >21.6
v                  666         1412           97         >18.8
b                  591         1338           78         >19.6
u                  335         1313          304         >19.2
w1                 715         1461           78         >18.7
m2                 690         1436           78         >20.0
w2                 641         1387           97         >19.7

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.46 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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