GCN Circular 3280
Subject
GRB 050416: Swift/UVOT refined analysis
Date
2005-04-17T00:22:59Z (19 years ago)
From
Patricia Schady at MSSL/Swift <ps@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
P. Schady (MSSL), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/NRC), K. McGowan (MSSL), P. Boyd
(GSFC/UMBC), P. Roming (PSU), J. Nousek (PSU), N. Gehrels (GSFC), on behalf of
the Swift UVOT team.
Starting with the data taken ~207s after the BAT trigger (Sakamoto et al., GCN
3264) we have co-added the early time data of GRB 050416 in each of the
Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) U, B, and V bands. The co-added images
are made up of 9 x 10s exposures. A source is detected at the position of the
afterglow (Cenko & Fox, GCN 3265) in the U and B band with magnitudes U = 19.34
+/- 0.2 and B = 19.85 +/- 0.2. No source is detected in the V co-added
image down to a 5-sigma limiting magnitude V > 19.57. There is ~173s
difference between the start of the finding chart exposure, in which a
source was detected (Schady et al., 3276) and the co-added image.
The magnitudes are based on preliminary zero-points, measured in orbit and will
require refinement with further calibration.