TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 34236 SUBJECT: GRB 230723B: Swift-XRT observations DATE: 23/07/23 13:08:29 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester S. Campana (INAF-OAB), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), D.N. Burrows (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU) and G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: The XRT began observing the field of GRB 230723B at 12:37:27.6 UT, 3294.7 seconds after the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 807 s of promptly downlinked data, which covered 88% of the BAT error circle. We are waiting for the full dataset to detect and localise the XRT counterpart.