GCN Circular 8488
Subject
UVOT/Swift observations of GRB081105
Date
2008-11-06T16:07:53Z (16 years ago)
From
Patricia Schady at MSSL/Swift <ps@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
P.A. Curran (UCL-MSSL), P. Schady (UCL-MSSL) and J. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC),
on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team.
The Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) began settled observations
of the Swift-BAT and IPN localization GRB 081105 (#333811; Cummings et
al., GCN 8484) ~16 hours after the BAT trigger. No afterglow is detected
at the XRT position (Beardmore et al., GCN 8487) in any filter. The
3-sigma limiting magnitudes in each of the observed UVOT filters are as
follows:
Filter T_start(dys) Exp(s) Mag UL (3sig)
white 0.67 159 > 20.76
v 0.81 630 > 19.92
b 0.66 885 > 21.05
u 0.74 224 > 19.92
uvw1 0.73 886 > 20.75
uvw2 0.89 886 > 21.02
The values quoted above are in the UVOT photometric system (Poole et al.
2008, MNRAS, 383, 627). They are not corrected for the expected Galactic
extinction corresponding to a reddening of E(B-V)=0.03 mag in the
direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).