GCN Circular 28311
Subject
GRB 200829A: Swift/UVOT Detection
Date
2020-08-29T19:10:29Z (4 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N.P.M. Kuin (MSSL-UCL) and M. H. Siegel (PSU) report on behalf of
the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 200829A
138 s after the BAT trigger (Siegel et al., GCN Circ. 28307).
The UV-optical source position is RA=251.204709, Dec=72.329356 deg
(J2000) which is in sexagesimal:
RA(J2000) = 16h 44m 49.14s
Dec(J2000) = 72d 19' 45.63"
with a positional uncertainty of 0.35" radius (90% confidence).
Preliminary detections and 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric
system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the early exposures
are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white 138 288 147 14.29 +/- 0.02
white 576 596 19 15.43 +/- 0.04
white 1527 1547 19 16.38 +/- 0.06
v 626 646 19 15.50 +/- 0.10
b 552 572 19 15.68 +/- 0.07
u 296 546 246 14.54 +/- 0.03
u 700 720 19 15.12 +/- 0.07
w1 675 696 19 15.19 +/- 0.12
m2 1080 1100 19 16.25 +/- 0.25
w2 1032 1398 39 17.64 +/- 0.30
Note that the times are since the BAT trigger time. The main burst took
place around 60s earlier during a Swift Slew.
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).