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GCN Circular 31147

Subject
GRB 211129A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2021-11-29T23:54:11Z (3 years ago)
From
Alexander Belles at PSU/Swift <aub1461@psu.edu>
A. Belles (PSU) and J. D. Gropp (PSU)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 211129A
84 s after the BAT trigger (Gropp et al., GCN Circ. 31136).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position
(Goad et al. GCN Circ. 31139)
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            84          234          147         >20.7
u_FC               297          547          246         >20.4
white               84          769          186         >20.9
v                  626          818           39         >18.8
b                  552          744           39         >19.6
u                  297          719          265         >20.5
w1                 675          695           19         >19.6
m2                 651          831           28         >19.2
w2                 602          794           39         >20.1

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.081 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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