[vsnet-grb-info 13797] GRB 130816A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  15111
SUBJECT: GRB 130816A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
DATE:    13/08/19 19:49:29 GMT
FROM:    Stephen Holland at STScI  <sholland at stsci.edu>

S. T. Holland (STScI) reports on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

     The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB
130816A starting 91 s after the BAT trigger (Holland et al. 2013, GCNC
15097).  We do not detect any new source consistent with the REM
afterglow position (Covino et al. 2013, GCNC 15098) in any of the UVOT
exposures.  Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT
photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373)
for the finding chart (FC) exposures and initial summed exposures are
presented below.

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Filter       TSTART      TSTOP    Exposure      Mag
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white (FC)       91        241         147    >20.8
    u (FC)      303        554         246    >19.9
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    v           633       1924         156    >19.2
    b           559       1850         136    >20.0
    u           707       1825         117    >19.5
 uvw1           682       1801         117    >19.3
 uvm2           658       1944         151    >19.4
 uvw2           609       1900         156    >19.7
white           584       1875         284    >21.1
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     The quoted upper limits have not been corrected for the expected
extinction due to the Galactic reddening along the line of sight to
this burst of E(B-V) = 0.70 mag (Schlafly et al. 2011, ApJS, 737,
103).  GRB 130816A was 4 degrees above the Galactic Plane, so this
extinction value is highly uncertain.