GCN Circular 41886
Subject
GRB 250919A/EP250919A: Swift/UVOT afterglow detection
Event
Date
2025-09-19T16:03:30Z (2 days ago)
From
Samantha Oates at University of Birmingham <samantha.oates@alumni.ucl.ac.uk>
Via
email
S. R. Oates (Lancaster U.) and R. Gupta (GSFC) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
Swift/UVOT has performed follow-up observations of GRB 250919A/EP250919a (Fermi GBM team GCN 41874;
Liang et al., GCN 41879, Wang et al., GCN 41882). Swift/UVOT began observations in the
u band 21.4ks after the detection by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team GCN 41874).
A source is detected consistent with the optical counterpart reported by Li et al., (GCN 41877).
The preliminary detection magnitude reported below is calculated using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373).
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
u 21418 23150 1705 17.14+\-0.03
The magnitude in the table is not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the
reddening of E(B-V) = 0.057 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).