Swift Ultraviolet Detections of five Novae in M31

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We report the detection of five novae in M31 using two observations with the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) on board the Swift satellite. The observations were obtained on 2009-10-22.61 UT (MJD 55126.61) and on 2009-10-25.77 UT (MJD 55129.77), respectively, and are part of a Swift ToO UVOT monitoring of the extremely bright nova M31N 2009-10b. Below we give UVOT magnitudes and 3-sigma upper limits for M31N 2009-10b and four other novae that are within the UVOT field in the uvw1 (181-321nm, 2058 and 610 s exposure time), uvm2 (166-268nm, 1997 and 269 s), and uvw2 (112-264 nm, 2247 and 716 s) filter observations: Nova uvw1 uvm2 uvw2 MJD M31N2009-02b 18.7±0.1 19.3±0.1 18.9±0.1 55126.61 18.7±0.2 19.3±0.3 19.1±0.2 55129.77 M31N2009-08a 18.5±0.2 18.7±0.2 19.1±0.3 55126.61 M31N2009-08e 18.7±0.1 18.4±0.1 18.4±0.1 55126.61 18.3±0.2 18.1±0.2 18.0±0.1 55129.77 M31N2009-10b 18.1±0.1 18.7±0.1 18.6±0.1 55126.61 18.6±0.2 19.0±0.3 19.0±0.2 55129.77 M31N2009-10c 16.9±0.1 17.1±0.1 17.4±0.1 55126.61 16.9±0.1 17.1±0.2 17.5±0.1 55129.77 Nova M31N 2009-10b does not shine out as an extremely bright object in the UVOT observations and it is fading rapidly, by about 0.4 magnitudes in only three days.

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