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GCN Circular 22579

Subject
GRB 180331B: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2018-04-01T09:38:55Z (6 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N. P. M. Kuin (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
180331B 668 s after the BAT trigger (Lien et al., GCN Circ. 22573).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position Goad er al.,
(GCN Circ. 22575) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures,
consistent with the report of Volnova et al.  (GCN Circ. 22577).
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           668          818          147         >21.2
white              668         2066          412         >21.8
v                 1056         2115          136         >19.2
b                 1156         2041          117         >20.3
u                 1130         2016          117         >20.3
w1                 849         1992           78         >20.2

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.01 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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