TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 15880 SUBJECT: GRB 140219A: Retraction of X-ray afterglow DATE: 14/02/24 09:34:59 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: Further analysis of the XRT afterglow candidate of GRB 140219A (GCN Circ. 15875) reveals that the light curve of this object had been contaminated by the presence of a nearby, bright, catalogued X-ray source. Refined analysis of the previously-announced afterglow candidate reveals it to be approximately constant, with a count rate of ~5e-3 ct/sec, thus it is probably not the afterglow. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.