GCN Circular 35705
Subject
GRB240204A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2024-02-08T15:37:24Z (10 months ago)
From
Mike Siegel at PSU/Swift MOC <mhs18@psu.edu>
Via
Web form
M. H. Siegel (PSU) and and S. B Cenko (GSFC) report on behalf of the
Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 240204A
4.8 ks after the BAT trigger (Cenko et al., GCN Circ 35666). No optical
afterglow consistent with either the optical (Pozanenko et al., GCN
Circ. 35670) or X-ray (Beardmore et al., GCN Circ. 35671) 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 of
the candidate afterglow field are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white 5887 6087 196 >20.70
v 4862 6498 393 >19.32
b 5683 5882 196 >19.98
u 5477 28539 1048 >20.54
uvw1 5272 5472 196 >19.26
uvm2 5067 6669 360 >19.36
uvw2 6093 6293 196 >19.42
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the high but uncertain reddening in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).