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GCN Circular 38365

Subject
GRB 241127A: Swift/UVOT Detection
Date
2024-11-28T13:21:45Z (a month ago)
From
Alice Breeveld at MSSL-UCL <a.breeveld@ucl.ac.uk>
Via
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A. A. Breeveld (UCL-MSSL) and C. Salvaggio (INAF-OAB) report on behalf
of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 241127A 484 s after the BAT trigger (Salvaggio et al., GCN Circ. 38354).
The optical counterpart seen in the UVOT at the position given in that circular, and also reported by Ortega-Cass et al., (GCN Circ. 38359) and MASTER (Buckley et al., GCN circular 38352 and Francile et al., GCN circular 38358) is detected in all the filters used for the initial UVOT exposures and is fading.

Preliminary magnitudes 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              484          634          147         17.04 ± 0.03
white            16459        16862          393         19.81 +/1 0.09
b                15547        16453          885         20.3  ± 0.3
u                21787        22629          821         19.1  ± 0.1
v                10002        10870          847         19.7  ± 0.2
uvw1             20881        21780          886         19.5  ± 0.3


The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.034 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).

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