TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 14715 SUBJECT: GRB 130527A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits DATE: 13/05/29 00:50:04 GMT FROM: Margaret Chester at PSU M. M. Chester (PSU) and B. P. Gompertz (U Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 130527A 113 s after the BAT trigger (Gompertz et al., GCN Circ. 14703). No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Evans et al. GCN Circ. 14705) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the first finding chart (FC) exposures and subsequent exposures are: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag white_FC 113 263 147 >21.2 white 113 1547 392 >21.1 white 4949 12020 623 >21.8 v 655 1596 117 >18.7 v 5359 5559 197 >19.5 b 581 1693 114 >20.2 b 6179 11579 906 >21.3 u_FC 325 575 246 >20.3 u 325 1671 343 >20.2 u 5974 18261 1072 >21.1 w1 704 1646 97 >19.8 w1 5769 17356 1082 >21.1 m2 680 1621 117 >20.0 m2 5564 5764 197 >19.8 w2 630 1572 117 >20.6 w2 5154 5354 197 >20.2 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).