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GCN Circular 21913

Subject
GRB 170921A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2017-09-22T14:56:56Z (7 years ago)
From
Sam LaPorte at PSU <sjl5346@psu.edu>
GRB 170921A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits

S. J. LaPorte (PSU) and A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
(Beardmore et al. GCN Circ. 21906)
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 170921A
101 s after the BAT trigger (D'Ai et al., GCN Circ. 21901).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position

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           101          251          147         >20.7
u_FC               259          509          246         >20.4
white              101         6816          766         >21.4
v                  590         7186          451         >19.9
b                  516         6611          471         >20.6
u                  259        12926         1346         >21.1
w1                 639        12273         1171         >20.6
m2                1412        11366         1102         >21.0
w2                 566        16512          687         >21.0

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.05 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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