TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7953 SUBJECT: UVOT observations of GRB080707 DATE: 08/07/07 22:52:44 GMT FROM: Patricia Schady at MSSL/Swift P. Schady (MSSL-UCL) and F.E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT starting taking settled exposures of the field of GRB 080707 80 s after the BAT trigger (Schady et al., GCN Circ. 7947). A faint source is detected in the early white and v-band observations at RA(J2000.0) = 02:10:28.40 = 32.61833 Dec(J2000.0) = +33:06:34.2 = 33.10950 with an of 1.1 arcseconds (90% confidence), consistent with the enhanced XRT error circle (Starling et al., GCN Circ. 7951) and the GROND position (Clemens et al., GCN 7948). The early-time afterglow and 3-sigma upper limits the in co-added frames are as follows: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag/3-sigma UL white 80 5469 294.0 21.40+/-0.31 (3.4 sigma) white 11355 12221 844.3 > 21.93 v 186 5880 590.1 19.97+/-0.31 (3.4 sigma) b 3971 18004 1502.6 > 21.74 u 640 17362 1040.0 > 21.18 uvw1 616 16449 1101.7 > 21.41 uvm2 591 22234 1101.7 > 21.29 uvw2 5477 5676 196.6 > 20.22 The values quoted above are not corrected for the expected Galactic extinction corresponding to a reddening of E(B-V) = 0.10 mag in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).