GCN Circular 35440
Subject
GRB 231230A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2023-12-30T11:25:57Z (9 months ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
Via
email
N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and M. J. Moss (GSFC)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 231230A
1511 s after the BAT trigger (Moss et al., GCN Circ. 35436).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position
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 initial exposures are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white 1511 1705 39 >18.9
b 1661 1681 19 >18.5
w1 1612 1632 19 >18.0
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.014 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).