GCN Circular 45118

M. Nakajima, H. Negoro, K. Saito, T. Yokoyama, M. Wada (Nihon U.),
T. Mihara, T. Tamagawa, N. Kawai, M. Matsuoka (RIKEN),
T. Sakamoto, M. Serino, S. Sugita, Y. Kawakubo, H. Hiramatsu, A. Yoshida (AGU),
Y. Tsuboi, Y. Ishihara, H. Ogaki (Chuo U.),
M. Shidatsu, C. Kang, M. Uenishi, T. Usuki, S. Yatsuzuka, H. Aoe (Ehime U.),
I. Takahashi, Y. Yatsu (Science Tokyo),
S. Nakahira, S. Ueno, H. Tomida, M. Kurihara (JAXA),
Y. Ueda, K. Fujiwara, S. Kobayashi (Kyoto U.),
M. Yamauchi, M. Nishio, C. Hiraizumi (Miyazaki U.),
K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U.),
M. Sugizaki (Kanazawa U.),
W. Iwakiri (Chiba U.),
T. Kawamuro (Osaka U.),
S. Yamada (Tohoku U),
S. Ogawa (TUS)

report on behalf of the MAXI team:
The MAXI/GSC nova alert system triggered a bright uncatalogued X-ray transient source at 16:43:12 UT on July 8 2026.
Assuming that the source flux was constant over the transit,
we obtain the source position at
(R.A., Dec) = (342.139 deg, -3.776 deg) = (22 48 33, -03 46 33) (J2000)
with a statistical 90% C.L. elliptical error region
with long and short radii of 0.22 deg and 0.18 deg, respectively.
The roll angle of long axis from the north direction is 167.0 deg counterclockwise.
There is an additional systematic uncertainty of 0.1 deg (90% containment radius).
The X-ray flux averaged over the scan was 172 +- 25 mCrab
(4.0-10.0keV, 1 sigma error).
Without assumptions on the source constancy, we obtain a rectangular error
box for the transient source with the following corners:
(341.215, -2.825) deg = (22 44 51, -02 49 30) (J2000)
(340.981, -3.128) deg = (22 43 55, -03 07 40) (J2000)
(342.971, -4.662) deg = (22 51 53, -04 39 43) (J2000)
(343.205, -4.358) deg = (22 52 49, -04 21 28) (J2000)
There was no significant excess flux in the previous transit at 15:10 UT
and in the next transit at 18:16 UT with an upper limit of 20 mCrab for each.