GCN Circular 4839
Subject
GRB 060223b: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2006-02-27T15:33:11Z (19 years ago)
From
Patricia Schady at MSSL/Swift <ps@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
P. Schady (PSU/MSSL-UCL), J.R. Cummings (NASA/ORAU), P.Brown (PSU), A.
Cucchiara (PSU) on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team
The Swift/UVOT began observing the field of GRB 060223b at 16:23:16 UT on 24th
February 2006, ~22hrs after the BAT trigger (Cummings et al. GCN 4821).
Due to the proximity of a Mira variable star (~5th mag) observations were
not made in the V or B filters. No source is detected at the refined XRT
position (Perri et al. GCN 4835) in any of the other filters. The 3 sigma
upper limits from a set of three coadded exposures in each filter are as
follows:
Filter T_mid(hrs) Exp(s) 3sigUL(mag)
U 22.6 2300 20.5
UVW1 22.0 2522 20.8
UVM2 21.8 2524 21.1
UVW2 21.1 2524 21.3
T_mid is the mid-time of the set of coadded images relative to the time since
the BAT trigger. We note that this is a very crowded field with a high level of
Galactic extinction (E(B-V) = 0.393). All reported magnitudes are uncorrected
for Galactic extinction.