TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 12549 SUBJECT: GRB 111109A: Swift-XRT observations DATE: 11/11/09 04:24:11 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester D.N. Burrows (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), M. Perri (ASDC), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) and J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: The XRT began observing the field of GRB 111109A at 03:49:14.9 UT, 3088.9 seconds after the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 922 s of promptly downlinked data. We are waiting for the full dataset to detect and localise the XRT counterpart.