TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 5898 SUBJECT: GRB 061201: UVOT Observations of a Fading Optical Afterglow DATE: 06/12/05 14:14:05 GMT FROM: Stephen Holland at USRA/NASA/GSFC/SSC S. T. Holland (CRESST/GSFC/USRA) and F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) report on behalf of the Swift team: UVOT observed the field of GRB 061201 during the first 19972 s after the BAT trigger (Marshall et al., GCN Circ. 5881). We detect the source seen by D'Avanzo (2006, GCN Circ. 5884) at the 4.2-sigma level in the White filter (160-650 nm) and at the 4.5-sigma level in a coadded image of all the UV filters. The coordinates of the source in the White image are: RA(J2000) = 22:08:32.06 DEC(J2000) = -74:34:47.9 with a 1-sigma error radius of about 0.5 arcsec, consistent with the VLT source. Our magnitudes and 3-sigma upper limits for all the UVOT filters are: Filter Start Stop Exposure Mag Err Significance V 191 12,136 1118 20.8 3-sigma upper limit B 669 6197 206 20.9 3-sigma upper limit U 645 5992 216 20.7 0.4 2.6 UVW1 621 17,926 519 20.7 0.5 2.9 21,392 58,442 11,555 22.9 0.5 2.5 86,427 160,471 19,972 23.0 3-sigma upper limit UVM2 5384 15,948 676 20.5 0.5 2.7 UVW2 697 6512 122 19.8 0.5 2.5 White 86 6402 304 20.8 0.3 4.2 Comb. UV 621 17,926 1337 20.8 0.4 4.5 The magnitude in the combined UV exposure (coadded UVW1, UVM2, and UVW2) between 621 sand 17,926 s is 20.8 +/- 0.4, assuming that the source has equal magnitude in each of these filters. Since the source is detected in the UVW2 filter, we estimate an upper limit to the redshift of about 1.7.