TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 9616 SUBJECT: GRB 090705: PAIRITEL NIR Observations DATE: 09/07/05 07:54:54 GMT FROM: Adam Morgan at U.C. Berkeley A. N. Morgan, B. E. Cobb, S. B. Cenko, J. S. Bloom, (UC Berkeley), report: We observed the field of the possible GRB 090705 (Ukwatta et al., GCN 9615) with the 1.3m PAIRITEL located at Mt. Hopkins, Arizona. Observations began at 2009-07-05 05:44:53 UT, ~33 minutes after the Swift trigger. In preliminary mosaics (effective exposure time of ~450 seconds) taken simultaneously in the J, H, and Ks filters, we detect no new sources inside the BAT error circle down to the 2MASS limits.