[vsnet-grb-info 27452] GRB 210217A: Swift/UVOT Detection
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Feb 23 23:28:24 JST 2021
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 29555
SUBJECT: GRB 210217A: Swift/UVOT Detection
DATE: 21/02/23 14:27:28 GMT
FROM: Kira Simpson at PSU <kira.simpson1984 at gmail.com>
GRB 210217A: Swift/UVOT Detection
K. K. Simpson (PSU) reports on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 210217A
103 s after the BAT trigger (Simpson et al., GCN Circ. 29521).
A source consistent with the XRT position
*** POSITION REFERENCE is GCN_Notice ***
is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
The preliminary UVOT position is:
RA (J2000) = 06:30:19.90 = 97.58291 (deg.)
Dec (J2000) = +68:43:30.6 = 68.72517 (deg.)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.46 arc sec. (radius, 90% confidence).
Preliminary detections using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the early exposures
are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white 103 253 147 18.80 +/- 0.06
u 315 508 190 18.64 +/- 0.11
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.102 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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