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GCN Circular 22836

Subject
GRB 180624A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2018-06-24T22:33:42Z (6 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and S. L. Gibson (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 180624A
118 s after the BAT trigger (Gibson et al., GCN Circ. 22832). No optical
afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Gibson et al. GCN Circ.
22832) 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           118          268          147         >20.7
u_FC               276          526          246         >19.4
white              118         6151          541         >21.3
v                 4927         6395          229         >20.0
b                 4312         5947          393         >21.2
u                  276         5742          639         >20.6
w1                3902         5537          393         >20.2
m2                5132         5332          197         >19.7
w2                4723         6357          393         >20.8

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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