TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 9160 SUBJECT: VLA observations of short burst GRB 090417A DATE: 09/04/19 13:23:35 GMT FROM: Poonam Chandra at U Virginia/NRAO P. Chandra (RMC) and D. A. Frail (NRAO) report on behalf of a larger collaboration: "We have used the Very Large Array (VLA) to image a field centered on the 2MASS galaxy suggested by Fox (GCN #9134) to be a possible host of the short duration burst 090417A (GCN # 9133, 9138). The VLA observed the burst at a frequency of 8.46 GHz on two epochs, April 17.92 UT and April 18.90 UT. Within a radius of 1.5 arcmin around the 2MASS galaxy there are no radio sources detected at either epoch to a 4-sigma limit of 104 uJy and 84 uJy, respectively. No further observations are planned. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc."