GCN Circular 40048
Subject
GRB 250403A: Swift/UVOT Detection
Event
Date
2025-04-04T13:28:59Z (10 months ago)
Edited On
2025-04-04T16:16:20Z (10 months ago)
From
Sam Shilling at Lancaster University <shilling.sam@gmail.com>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Sam Shilling at Lancaster University <shilling.sam@gmail.com>
Via
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S. P. R. Shilling (Lancaster U.), S. R. Oates (Lancaster U.) and S. Dichiara (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift UVOT team:
Swift/UVOT observed the field of GRB 250403A detected by Fermi GBM (Fermi team, GCN Circ. 40025) and
SVOM/ECLAIRs (Julakanti et al., GCN Circ. 40026), starting at 17:22:59 UT on 24/04/03, ~2.1 hours after the initial detections.
An optical afterglow is initially detected in the U-band consistent with the position of the uncatalogued X-ray source detected by Swift/XRT (Dichiara et al., GCN Circ. 40037) and the optical afterglow detected by various facilities (Starling et al., GCN Circ. 40028; Wu et al., GCN Circ. 40029; Du et al., GCN Circ. 40031; Li et al., GCN Circ. 40032; Ghosh et al., GCN Circ. 40039; Jiang et al., GCN Circ. 40041; Pérez-Fournon et al., GCN Circ. 40043; Xin et al., GCN Circ. 40045). At 00:02:02 UT on 25/04/04, ~6.7 hours later, the optical afterglow is no longer detected.
The preliminary detection and 3-sigma upper limits calculated using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the initial and subsequent exposures are:
Filter T_start(h) Exp(s) Mag
u 2.1 396 19.2 +/- 0.2
u 8.8 492 >20.3
b 8.8 386 >20.5
v 9.0 130 >19.0
w1 12.1 164 >19.3
m2 12.0 245 >19.7
w2 8.9 246 >19.8
The magnitudes given are calculated using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) and are not corrected for the Galactic extinction.