GCN Circular 5367

Subject

GRB 060729: Swift/UVOT Observations

Event

Date

2006-07-29T23:33:34Z (19 years ago)

From

Stefan Immler at NASA/GSFC <immler@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>

S. Immler (NASA/USRA/GSFC) reports on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began observing the field of GRB 060729 at
19:14:45 UT on 2006-07-29, 135 s after the BAT trigger (Grupe et al.,
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 ). An optical counterpart was detected in the White
(160-650 nm) and V filters at a position of RA, Dec = 06:21:31.85,
-62:22:12.7 (J2000), located within the XRT error circle.

A White filter image taken 12 min later showed that the source
brightened by about 1 magnitude, while the source stayed constant
in images obtained in the V filter within the same period.
The photometry results are given for the UVOT filters below:

Filter   T_start(s)  Exposure(s)    Mag

White     135         100        17.75
White     860         100        16.65
V     241         396        17.30
V     966         400        17.35

Statistical and systematic errors are 0.1 mag each.
The values quoted above are not corrected for the expected
Galactic extinction of E_{B-V}=0.054 (Schlegel et al. 1998).
More UVOT data are expected after the next Malindi contact
(2006-07-30 01:27 UT).