Skip to main content
Testing. You are viewing the public testing version of GCN. For the production version, go to https://gcn.nasa.gov.
New! Circulars over Kafka, Heartbeat Topic, and Schema v4.1.0. See news and announcements

GCN Circular 7961

Subject
UVOT white band observations of GRB080710
Date
2008-07-10T10:42:45Z (16 years ago)
From
Patricia Schady at MSSL/Swift <ps@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
P. Schady (MSSL-UCL) reports on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The UVOT began observing the field of GRB 080710 3138.2s after the BAT 
trigger. A single white band finding chart was downlinked promptly, and 
a bright, uncatalogued source with magnitude wh = 16.88+/-0.02 is 
detected at
	RA  =  00:33:05.67   = 8.27363
	Dec = +19:30:04.69 = 19.50130
with an uncertainty of 0.5 arcseconds (90% confidence), consistent with 
the XRT position (Sbarufatti et al., GCN 7958) and KAIT position 
(Chornock et al., GCN 7959).

The value quoted above has not been corrected for the expected Galactic 
extinction corresponding to a reddening of E(B-V) = 0.08 mag in the 
direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).
Looking for U.S. government information and services? Visit USA.gov