TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16782 SUBJECT: GRB 140901B: Swift XRT observation DATE: 14/09/05 13:30:05 GMT FROM: Valerio D'Elia at ASDC V. D'Elia (ASDC), L. Izzo (URoma/ICRA) and A. Maselli (INAF-IASFPA) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: XRT began a target of opportunity observation of GRB140901B, detected by Swift-BAT (Cummings, GCN Circ. 16773) and Fermi-GBM (Zhang, Circ. 16775). Swift slewed to the burst on 2014-09-05. Observations with the XRT began at 01:23:58 UT, i.e., 330 ks after the trigger, and comprised a total of 2.97 ks in photon counting mode. We do not detect any X-ray sources, within the BAT error circle (Cummings, GCN Circ. 16773), with S/N>2. We place a 3-sigma upper limit on the count rate at the BAT position of 3.85E-03 cts/s. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.