GCN Circular 37729
Subject
GRB 241006A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2024-10-07T12:48:32Z (a month ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
Via
email
N.P.M. Kuin and R. Gupta (NASA GSFC) report on behalf of
the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of
GRB 241006A 350 s after the BAT trigger (Gupta et al.,
GCN Circ. 37722). No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT
position has been 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 350 499 147 >21.0
white 350 625 167 >21.0
v 656 676 19 >17.4
b 580 600 19 >19.0
u 556 575 19 >17.9
w1 531 715 28 >18.8
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.065 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).