TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 12446 SUBJECT: GRB 111016A: Swift/UVOT Detection of a Source DATE: 11/10/17 18:18:13 GMT FROM: Tyler Pritchard at PSU T. A. Pritchard (PSU) and V. Mangano (INAF-IASFPA) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 111016A 188 s after the BAT trigger (Mangano et al., GCN Circ. 12439). No optical afterglow consistent with the Enhanced Swift-XRT position (Evans et al., GCN Circ 12441) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures, however a marginal source is detected in followup observations in the UVOT white filter. This position is consistent with the source observed by Cenko et all (GCN Circ 12444). Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits and magnitudes using the UVOT photometric system (Poole et al. 2008, MNRAS, 383, 627) for the first finding chart (FC) exposure and subsequent exposures are: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag white_FC 188 337 147 >20.3 u_FC 345 595 246 >19.3 white 188 23781 1926 >21.5 white 27360 45216 4662 21.56 v 4468 16602 1278 >20.5 b 5288 23264 1967 >21.6 u 345 22351 1328 >20.4 w1 724 18207 1095 >20.5 m2 700 17507 1298 >20.8 w2 651 12429 1135 >20.7 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).