GCN Circular 18602
Subject
GRB 151114A: Swift/UVOT Detection
Date
2015-11-14T19:34:41Z (9 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and M. H. Siegel (PSU)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 151114A
95 s after the BAT trigger (Siegel et al., GCN Circ. 18599).
A source consistent with the XRT position
(Siegel et al. GCN Circ. 18599)
is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
The preliminary UVOT position is:
RA (J2000) = 08:03:46.33 = 120.94306 (deg.)
Dec (J2000) = -61:01:40.0 = -61.02779 (deg.)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.45 arc sec. (radius, 90% confidence).
Preliminary detections and 3-sigma upper limits 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 95 244 147 18.61 +/- 0.06
v 638 1233 72 >18.4
b 563 1164 58 19.45 +/- 0.26
u 307 557 246 18.46 +/- 0.09
w1 688 1115 39 >18.3
m2 662 1090 58 >19.2
w2 613 1215 78 >19.2
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.17 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).