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GCN Circular 27108

Subject
GRB 200216B: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2020-02-16T22:15:58Z (4 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB) report on
behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 200216B
124 s after the BAT trigger (D'Avanzo et al., GCN Circ. 27102). No optical
afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Goad et al. GCN Circ. 27106)
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           124          274          147         >21.0
white              124         1535          334         >21.5
w1                1095         1635           39         >20.2

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.02 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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