TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 17580 SUBJECT: GRB 150314A: Swift/UVOT Detection DATE: 15/03/14 18:04:29 GMT FROM: Lea Hagen at PSU L. M. Z. Hagen (PSU) reports on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 150314A 95 s after the BAT trigger (Hagen et al., GCN Circ. 17573). We detect a fading source consistent with the XRT position (Beardmore et al. GCN Circ. 17575) and optical detections (Zheng & Filippenko GCN Circ. 17574, Trotter et al. GCN Circ. 17577) that is detected in all but the bluest UVOT filters. 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 97 244 144 17.22 +/- 0.03 white 587 781 38 19.13 +/- 0.18 white 5472 5671 196 >21.02 v 75 85 9 15.48 +/- 0.13 v 637 657 19 17.75 +/- 0.33 v 4445 6082 390 >19.77 b 562 756 38 19.28 +/- 0.35 b 5266 5466 196 >20.32 u 307 556 245 18.86 +/- 0.14 u 712 6528 253 >20.14 uvw1 687 6485 412 >20.31 uvm2 4650 6280 391 >20.16 uvw2 613 5877 412 >20.46 The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.04 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).