TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 22388 SUBJECT: GRB 180205A: VLT polarimetry DATE: 18/02/05 19:20:24 GMT FROM: Klaas Wiersema at U of Warwick K. Wiersema (Warwick) & S. Covino (INAF / OAB) report on behalf of the Stargate consortium: We observed the afterglow of GRB 180205A (Evans et al. GCN 22381; Zheng et al. GCN 22382; Bolmer et al. GCN 22383, Tanvir et al. GCN 22384) with the ESO Very Large Telescope equipped with FORS2. We obtained a set of imaging polarimetry observations in R band, starting at 07:07 UT (approximately 2.67 hours after burst). Using archival calibration data, we find a low level of polarisation, P ~ 0.9%, similar to the majority of late-time GRB afterglow measurements (Covino & Gotz 2016, A&AT 29, 205). We acknowledge excellent support from the ESO staff.