TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19420 SUBJECT: GRB 160509A: Further Swift/UVOT Observations DATE: 16/05/10 21:30:27 GMT FROM: Frank Marshall at GSFC F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC) and T.G.R. Roegiers (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The afterglow of the LAT-triggered GRB 160509A (Longo et al., GCN Circ. 19403) has been detected in the X-ray (Kennea et al., GCN Circ. 19408), optical (Levan et al., GCN Circ. 19410; Cenko et al., GCN Circ. 19416), near-IR (Tanvir et al., GCN Circ. 19419), and radio (Alexander et al. GCN Circ. 19414) bands. No afterglow was seen in the initial UVOT observation in the u filter (Marshall and Roegiers, GCN Circ. 19412). As detailed in the table below, additional UVOT observations also show no detections. All the upper limits are at 2-sigma confidence. Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag u 7259 19794 626 >21.6 u 24201 36310 1802 >22.2 v 25452 36990 1257 >21.4 white 24826 36919 1802 >23.2 The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.31 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).