GCN Circular 3838
Subject
Swift/UVOT photometry of GRB050820
Date
2005-08-20T21:04:12Z (19 years ago)
From
Margaret Chester at PSU <chester@astro.psu.edu>
M. Chester (PSU), M. Page (UCL-MSSL), P. Roming (PSU),
F. Marshall (GSFC), P. Boyd (GSFC), L. Angelini (GSFC-JHU),
J. Greiner (MPE), N. Gehrels (GSFC), on behalf of the Swift UVOT team.
Swift/UVOT began observing GRB050820 at 06:36:13 UT.
The initial 100-second finding chart exposure in V was cut short
due to entry into the SAA; it was repeated on the second orbit.
The afterglow is detected in the V, B, U, and one UV band.
Similar to the ground-based observations (GCN #3829),
UVOT sees a rising, then falling, light curve in V.
Analysis in the other bands is continuing.
V-band Observations:
Time-Since-Trigger V
80 s 18.2 +/- 0.3
4635 s 17.6 +/- 0.2
12238 s 18.2 +/- 0.2
Other:
Time-Since-Trigger Mag Filter
5647 s 18.3 +/- 0.2 U
10423 s 19.0 +/- 0.1 B
4741 s 20.4 +/- 0.2 UVW1
11331 s >21.0 UVW2
The magnitudes have not been corrected for extinction.
Upper limits are given at the 5-sigma level.