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GCN Circular 8527

Subject
GRB 081118: Swift UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2008-11-19T01:10:01Z (15 years ago)
From
Erik Hoversten at Swift/Penn State <hoversten@astro.psu.edu>
E. A. Hoversten (PSU) reports on behalf of the Swift UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of
GRB 081118 150s after the BAT trigger (Hoversten et al., GCN 8524).
We do not detect any source at the enhanced Swift XRT position (Evans
et al., GCN 8525).  UVOT magnitude 3-sigma upper limits are reported
in the following table:

Filter   T_start   T_stop   Exp(s)  Mag (3-sigma upper limit)
-------------------------------------------------------------
white       150      300     147      > 21.32
white       854     1004     147      > 21.29
white      5726     5926     196      > 21.50
v          6137     6337     196      > 19.79
b          5522     5721     196      > 20.82
u          5316     5515     196      > 20.49
uvw1       5111     5310     196      > 20.26
uvm2       4905     5105     196      > 19.88
uvw2       5933     6132     196      > 20.24

The quoted upper limits have not been corrected for the expected
Galactic extinction along the line of sight of E_(B-V) = 0.04 mag.
All photometry is on the UVOT photometric system described in Poole et
al. (2008, MNRAS, 383, 627).
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