GCN Circular 36562
Subject
GRB 240529A: Swift/UVOT Detection
Date
2024-05-29T13:07:35Z (6 months ago)
From
Sam Shilling at Lancaster University <shilling.sam@gmail.com>
Via
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S.P.R. Shilling (Lancaster U.) and Eyles-Ferris (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 240529A
128 s after the BAT trigger (Eyles-Ferris et al., GCN Circ. 36556).
A source consistent with the enhanced XRT position
(Osborne et al., GCN Circ. 36557) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
The preliminary UVOT position is:
RA (J2000) = 22:21:25.97 = 335.35822 (deg.)
Dec (J2000) = +51:33:43.0 = 51.56194 (deg.)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.43 arc sec. (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 128 278 147 17.07 +/- 0.04
v 671 691 19 16.16 +/- 0.14
b 598 617 19 17.44 +/- 0.16
u 341 591 246 18.27 +/- 0.10
w1 720 1642 97 >18.8
m2 695 1617 97 >18.7
w2 647 1568 117 >19.1
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.332 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).