TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 10540 SUBJECT: SGR 1833-0832: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits DATE: 10/03/22 22:08:21 GMT FROM: Frank Marshall at GSFC F.E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) and J.M. Gelbord (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of SGR 1833-0832 71 s after the BAT trigger (Gelbord et al., GCN Circ. 10526). No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Evans and Goad, GCN_Circ. 10529) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Poole et al. 2008, MNRAS, 383, 627) for the first finding chart (FC) exposures and subsequent exposures are: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag white_FC 71 220 147 >20.6 u_FC 283 533 246 >20.5 white 71 57748 1793 >22.3 v 612 69706 3549 >21.4 b 539 57397 3660 >21.3 u 283 75812 5479 >22.3 w1 4479 75666 6430 >21.8 m2 5710 74760 4446 >22.5 w2 5300 68903 3050 >22.3 The values quoted above are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the very large reddening in the direction of the source (Schlegel et al. 1998). The large X-ray column density to the source found with the Swift/XRT (Gelbord and Vetere, GCN Circ. 10531) also indicates very large optical extinction.