TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8840 SUBJECT: GRB 090118: Swift XRT Observations - Confirmation of an Afterglow DATE: 09/01/22 20:14:14 GMT FROM: Antonia Rowlinson at U.of Leicester B.A. Rowlinson and K.L. Page (U. Leicester) report of behalf of the Swift-XRT team: Swift-XRT completed a 10ks follow-up ToO obsevation of GRB 090118 (Copete et al. GCN Circ. 8825) approximately 250ks after the burst. These observations confirm the previous Swift-XRT observations (Rowlinson & Page GCN Circ. 8828) that a fading source has been detected with a decay slope of alpha=0.61 +/- 0.3. This source is confirmed as the afterglow.