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GCN Circular 42286

Subject
GRB 251014D: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2025-10-15T12:45:11Z (19 hours ago)
From
Alice Breeveld at MSSL-UCL <a.breeveld@ucl.ac.uk>
Via
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A.A. Breeveld (UCL-MSSL) and N. J. Klingler (GSFC/UMBC/CRESSTII) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 251014D 160 s after the BAT trigger (Klingler et al., GCN Circ. 42274).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Page et al., GCN Circ. 42284)is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the first finding chart (FC) exposure and subsequent exposures are:

Filter         T_start(s)   T_stop(s)      Exp(s)         Mag

white_FC           160          310          147         >20.7
white              160         4287          344         >20.9
v                 4498         4697          197         >19.2
b                 3882         5439          317         >19.9
u                  318         5312          204         >19.8
w1                4907         5107          197         >19.7
m2                4702         4902          197         >19.6
w2                4293         4493          197         >19.4

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.020 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).

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