TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 25128 SUBJECT: GRB 190719C: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits DATE: 19/07/20 16:32:27 GMT FROM: Paul Kuin at MSSL N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and E. Ambrosi (INAF-IASFPA) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 190719C 71 s after the BAT trigger (Ambrosi et al., GCN Circ. 25106). No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the first finding chart (FC) exposure and subsequent exposures are: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag white_FC 71 221 147 >20.6 u_FC 283 533 246 >20.6 white 71 756 186 >20.8 v 613 807 39 >18.7 b 538 732 39 >19.9 u 283 706 265 >20.5 w1 662 856 39 >19.2 The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.04 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998). The upper limits are consistent with the faint candidate afterglow reported by Malesani et al. (GCN Circ. 25110).