GCN Circular 42099
Subject
GRB 251002A: Swift/UVOT detection
Event
Date
2025-10-03T18:26:26Z (a year ago)
From
s.shilling@lancaster.ac.uk
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S.P.R. Shilling (Lancaster U.) reports on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 251002A in the U band for a total of 1.5 ks, starting 3.6 ks after the SVOM/ECLAIRs trigger (Saccardi et al., GCN Circ. 42060).
A source is detected in the U band at a position that is consistent with other detections by other instruments in the optical (Palmerio et al., GCN 42061; Turpin et al., GCN 42062; Jelinek et al., GCN 42063; Julia-Maroto et al., GCN 42064; Moskvitin et al., GCN 42065; Perez-Garcia et al., GCN 42606; Senik et al., GCN 42067; Saccardi et al., GCN 42076; Mandarakas et al., GCN 42077; Cao et al., GCN 42078; Schneider et al., GCN 42080; Pankov et al., GCN 42081; Leonini et al., GCN 42082; Odeh et al., GCN 42087; Wortley et al., GCN 42091).
Preliminary detections using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the stacked U band images are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
U 3628 9263 1476 19.02 +/- 0.08
The magnitude reported here is not corrected for Galactic extinction.