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GCN Circular 37147

Subject
GRB 240811A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2024-08-12T08:26:46Z (5 months ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
Via
email
N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and K. L. Page (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB
240811A 102 s after the BAT trigger (Page et al., GCN Circ. 37136).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Beardmore
et al. GCN Circ. 37141) 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           102          252          147         >21.0
u_FC               315          564          246         >20.7
white              102         1191          353         >21.9
v                  644         5026          255         >18.7
b                  570         1167           58         >20.0
u                  315         1142          285         >20.7
w1                1098         5251           34         >19.2
m2                5031         5231          197         >18.8
w2                4622         4821          197         >19.6

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic
extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.023 in the direction
of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).

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