TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 9234 SUBJECT: Swift/UVOT observations of GRB 090424 DATE: 09/04/24 21:42:37 GMT FROM: Samantha Oates at MSSL P.Schady (MSSL/UCL) and J. K. Cannizzo (NASA/UMBC) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT started settled observations of the burst GRB090424 (Cannizzo et al. GCN Circ. 9223) with the finding chart (fc) exposure in white, 167s after the BAT trigger. The afterglow is detected in the all filters at the position reported by Cannizzo et al. (GCN Circ. 9223), placing an upper limit on the redshift of ~1.3. The combined UVOT data indicates that the afterglow is fading with a decay index of alpha ~ 0.9. The UVOT magnitudes our reported below: Filter Tmid(s) Exp(s) Magnitude white (fc) 167 147.4 15.27 +/- 0.01 u (fc) 429 245.8 16.40 +/- 0.03 white 594 19.4 16.99 +/- 0.07 v 644 19.5 16.86 +/- 0.19 b 570 19.5 17.27 +/- 0.13 u 1122 19.5 17.44 +/- 0.20 uvw1 695 19.5 16.81 +/- 0.19 uvm2 670 19.4 17.39 +/- 0.34 uvw2 793 19.4 17.51 +/- 0.27 The values quoted above are in the UVOT photometric system (Poole et al. 2008, MNRAS, 383, 627) and are not corrected for the expected Galactic extinction corresponding to a reddening of E(B-V)=0.025 mag in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).