[vsnet-grb-info 26699] GRB 201027A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  28799
SUBJECT: GRB 201027A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
DATE:    20/10/28 14:19:28 GMT
FROM:    Alice Breeveld at MSSL-UCL  <a.breeveld at ucl.ac.uk>

A. A. Breeveld (UCL-MSSL) and S. B. Cenko (GSFC) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 201027A 87 s after the BAT trigger 
(Cenko et al., GCN Circ. 28788). No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Cenko et al. 
GCN Circ. 28788) 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_FC            87          236          147         >20.2
u_FC               299          548          246         >19.5
white               87         1721          411         >21.2
v                  629         1771          136         >18.3
b                  554         1696          117         >19.3
u                  299         1671          343         >20.1
w1                 678         1818          135         >19.1
m2                 653         1795           78         >20.4
w2                 604         1574          117         >20.2

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of 
E(B-V) = 0.04 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).