[vsnet-grb-info 17295] GRB 151205A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  18660
SUBJECT: GRB 151205A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
DATE:    15/12/05 23:00:57 GMT
FROM:    Lea Hagen at PSU  <lea.zernow.hagen at gmail.com>

L. M. Z. Hagen (PSU) and J. R. Cummings (NASA/UMBC)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 151205A
101 s after the BAT trigger (Cummings et al., GCN Circ. 18657). No
optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Osborne et al.
GCN Circ. 18658) 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              101         5796          383         >21.15
v                  590         6207          236         >19.25
b                  514         5591          236         >20.14
u                  259         6713          552         >20.21
w1                 639         6617          413         >20.10
m2                4776         6412          393         >20.07
w2                 565         6002          236         >19.95

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.02 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).