TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 24072 SUBJECT: GRB 140408A: MAXI/GSC detection DATE: 19/04/09 01:14:21 GMT FROM: Satoshi Sugita at Aoyama Gakuin U. S. Sugita (AGU), H. Negoro, M. Nakajima, W. Maruyama, M. Aoki, K. Kobayashi (Nihon U.), S. Nakahira, T. Mihara, M. Matsuoka (RIKEN), T. Sakamoto, M. Serino, A. Yoshida (AGU), Y. Tsuboi, W. Iwakiri, R. Sasaki, H. Kawai, T. Sato (Chuo U.), M. Shidatsu (Ehime U.), N. Kawai, M. Sugizaki, Y. Tachibana, K. Morita, M. Oeda, K. Shiraishi (Tokyo Tech), S. Ueno, H. Tomida, M. Ishikawa, Y. Sugawara, N.Isobe, R. Shimomukai, M. Tominaga (JAXA), Y. Ueda, A. Tanimoto, T. Morita, S. Yamada, S. Ogawa (Kyoto U.), H. Tsunemi, T. Yoneyama, K. Asakura, S. Ide (Osaka U.), M. Yamauchi, S. Iwahori, Y. Kurihara (Miyazaki U.), T. Kawamuro (NAOJ), K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U.), Y. Kawakubo (LSU) report on behalf of the MAXI team: The MAXI/GSC nova alert system triggered a bright uncatalogued X-ray transient source at UT 2019/04/08 18:06:19. Assuming that the source flux was constant over the transit, we obtain the source position at (R.A., Dec) = (47.342 deg, 1.758 deg) = (03 09 22, +01 45 28) (J2000) with a statistical 90% C.L. elliptical error region with long and short radii of 0.52 deg and 0.22 deg, respectively. The roll angle of long axis from the north direction is 145.0 deg counterclockwise. There is an additional systematic uncertainty of 0.1 deg (90% containment radius). The X-ray flux averaged over the scan was 189 +- 35 mCrab (2.0-4.0keV, 1 sigma error). Without assumptions on the source constancy, we obtain a rectangular error box for the transient source with the following corners: (R.A., Dec) = (46.050, 1.531) deg = (03 04 11, +01 31 51) (J2000) (R.A., Dec) = (46.579, 0.646) deg = (03 06 18, +00 38 45) (J2000) (R.A., Dec) = (48.900, 2.032) deg = (03 15 35, +02 01 55) (J2000) (R.A., Dec) = (48.371, 2.917) deg = (03 13 29, +02 55 01) (J2000) There was no significant excess flux in the previous transit at UT 16:33 and in the next transit at UT 19:39 with an upper limit of 20 mCrab for each.