[vsnet-grb-info 25168] GRB 200228B: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  27268
SUBJECT: GRB 200228B: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
DATE:    20/02/28 22:23:32 GMT
FROM:    Paul Kuin at MSSL  <npkuin at gmail.com>

N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and S. L. Laha (GSFC/UMBC/CRESST)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 200228B
137 s after the BAT trigger (Laha et al., GCN Circ. 27254).  No optical
afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Evans et al., GCN Circ.
 #27256 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

u_FC               137          387          246         >20.1
v                 4992        10685          676         >20.1
b                 4580         6012          393         >20.6
u                  137         5807          442         >20.4
w1                5402         5602          197         >19.5
m2                5197         5396          197         >19.8
w2                4786         6218          393         >19.4

The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.092 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).