GRB 231129B

M. Kurihara (JAXA), H. Negoro (Nihon U.), M. Serino (AGU), W. Iwakiri (Chiba U.),
M. Nakajima, K. Kobayashi, M. Tanaka, Y. Soejima, Y. Kudo (Nihon U.), 
T. Mihara, T. Kawamuro, S. Yamada, T. Tamagawa, N. Kawai, M. Matsuoka (RIKEN), 
T. Sakamoto, S. Sugita, H. Hiramatsu, H. Nishikawa, A. Yoshida (AGU), 
Y. Tsuboi, S. Urabe, S. Nawa, N. Nemoto, E.Goto (Chuo U.), 
M. Shidatsu (Ehime U.),
I. Takahashi, M. Niwano, S. Sato, N. Higuchi, Y. Yatsu (Tokyo Tech), 
S. Nakahira,  S. Ueno, H. Tomida, M. Ishikawa, S. Ogawa, M. Kurihara (JAXA), 
Y. Ueda, K. Setoguchi, T. Yoshitake, Y. Nakatani, Y. Okada (Kyoto U.), 
M. Yamauchi, Y. Hagiwara, Y. Umeki, Y. Otsuki (Miyazaki U.), 
K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U.),
Y. Kawakubo (LSU),
M. Sugizaki (NAOC),
report on behalf of the MAXI team:

The MAXI/GSC nova alert system triggered a bright uncatalogued X-ray transient source at 14:03:05 UT on 29 November 2023.
Assuming that the source flux was constant over the transit,
we obtain the source position at
(R.A., Dec) = (285.662 deg, 40.278 deg) = (19 02 38, +40 16 40) (J2000)
with a statistical 90% C.L. elliptical error region
with long and short radii of 0.39 deg and 0.26 deg, respectively.
The roll angle of long axis from the north direction is 75.0 deg counterclockwise.
Without assumptions on the source constancy, we obtain a rectangular error
box for the transient source with the following corners:
(283.889, 39.749) deg = (18 55 33, +39 44 56) (J2000)
(284.232, 39.302) deg = (18 56 55, +39 18 07) (J2000)
(286.730, 40.399) deg = (19 06 55, +40 23 56) (J2000)
(286.398, 40.853) deg = (19 05 35, +40 51 10) (J2000)
There is an additional systematic uncertainty of 0.1 deg (90% containment radius).

The X-ray flux averaged over the scan was 141 +- 32 mCrab
(4.0-10.0keV, 1 sigma error).
There was no significant excess flux in the previous transit at 12:30 UT
with an upper limit of 20 mCrab.

P. A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift team:

Swift has initiated a series of observations, tiled on the sky, of the
MAXI GRB 231129B. Automated analysis of the XRT data will
be presented online at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00116

Any uncatalogued X-ray sources detected in this analysis will be
reported on this website and via GCN COUNTERPART notices. The probability of finding
serendipitous sources, unrelated to the MAXI event is high: any X-ray source
considered to be a probable afterglow candidate will be reported via a GCN Circular
after manual consideration.

Details of the XRT automated analysis methods are detailed in Evans et
al. (2007, A&A, 469, 379; 2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177 and 2014, ApJS, 210, 8).

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.

T. Sbarrato (INAF-OAB), A. Tohuvavohu (U. Toronto), D.N. Burrows (PSU),
J. D. Gropp (PSU), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U.
Leicester), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), M.G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB) and P.A.
Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the MAXI-detected
burst GRB 231129B in a series of observations tiled on the sky. The
total exposure time is 2.0 ks, distributed over 7 tiles; the maximum
exposure at a single sky location was 659 s. The data were collected
between T0+12.3 ks and T0+18.0 ks, and are entirely in Photon Counting
(PC) mode. 

No X-ray sources have been detected. The 3-sigma upper limit in the
field (not including the regions where the tiles overlap) ranges from
~0.03 to ~0.07 ct s^-1, corresponding to a 0.3-10 keV observed flux of
1.1e-12 to 2.7e-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (assuming a typical GRB spectrum).

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis of the tiled XRT
observations, including a position-specific upper limit calculator, are
available at https://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00116.

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.