[vsnet-grb-info 6748] GRB081008: Swift/UVOT observations
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Oct 9 19:31:03 JST 2008
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 8348
SUBJECT: GRB081008: Swift/UVOT observations
DATE: 08/10/09 10:30:54 GMT
FROM: Patricia Schady at MSSL/Swift <ps at mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
P. Schady (MSSL-UCL) and J. L. Racusin (PSU) report on behalf of the
Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 081008 96 s
after the BAT trigger (Racusin et al., GCN Circ. 8344), using a newly
implemented observing sequence. The new sequence takes a 150s white-band
finding chart exposure, followed by a 250s u-band exposure, after which
the filter wheel rotates through all filters, taking short 20s exposures.
A new fading source is detected at the ROTSE position (Rykoff et al., GCN
Circ 8343) in the white, v, b, u and uvw1 filters, consistent with a
redshift of z=1.967 reported by Cucchiara et al., (GCN Circ 8346). The
source is decaying at a constant rate of 0.90+/-0.03 for the duration of
intial UVOT observations, out to ~700s after the BAT trigger. The UVOT
refined position is
RA(J2000) = 18:39:49.877 (279.95833 deg)
Dec(J2000) = -57:25:52.87 (-57.431111 deg)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.6 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence).
The detections and 3 sigma upper limits of the fading afterglow are
reported below, where T_start and T_stop represent the elapsed time since
the BAT trigger in seconds, and fc indicate finding chart exposures
Filter T_start(s) T_stop Exp(s) Mag or 3 Sigma Limit
white (fc) 96 246 146 14.96 +/- 0.01
white 534 554 19 15.87 +/- 0.03
u (fc) 254 504 246 15.19 +/- 0.02
u 658 678 19 15.81 +/- 0.08
v 584 604 19 15.64 +/- 0.10
b 510 530 19 15.79 +/- 0.05
uvw1 633 653 19 17.03 +/- 0.22
uvm2 608 1601 117 > 19.16
uvw2 559 1717 128 > 19.53
The above magnitudes are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
corresponding to a reddening of E(B-V) = 0.10 mag (Schlegel et al., 1998,
ApJS, 500, 525). The photometry is on the UVOT photometric system
described in Poole et al. (2008, MNRAS, 383,627).
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