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GCN Circular 26611

Subject
GRB 191228A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2019-12-29T21:38:22Z (5 years ago)
From
Sam LaPorte at PSU <sjl5346@psu.edu>
GRB 191228A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits

J. D. Gropp (PSU) and M. G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 191228A
131 s after the BAT trigger (Bernardini et al., GCN Circ. 26601).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position
(Bernardini et al. GCN Circ. 26601)
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           131          281          147         >20.3
u_FC               289          539          246         >19.6
white              131         1009          327         >20.6
v                  619          811           39         >18.2
b                  545          737           39         >19.2
u                  289          712          265         >19.6
w1                 668          860           39         >18.4

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.04 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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