TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 23257 SUBJECT: GRB 180923A: MAXI/GSC detection DATE: 18/09/23 06:57:35 GMT FROM: Motoko Suzuki at RIKEN W. Maruyama, H. Negoro (Nihon U.), M. Serino (AGU), M. Nakajima, A. Sakamaki (Nihon U.), T. Mihara, S. Nakahira, F. Yatabe, Y. Takao, M. Matsuoka (RIKEN), T. Sakamoto, S. Sugita, Y. Kawakubo, T. Hashimoto, A. Yoshida (AGU), N. Kawai, M. Sugizaki, Y. Tachibana, K. Morita (Tokyo Tech), S. Ueno, H. Tomida, M. Ishikawa, Y. Sugawara, N. Isobe, R. Shimomukai (JAXA), Y. Ueda, A. Tanimoto, T. Morita, S. Yamada (Kyoto U.), Y. Tsuboi, W. Iwakiri, R. Sasaki, H. Kawai, T. Sato (Chuo U.), H. Tsunemi, T. Yoneyama, K. Asakura, S. Ide (Osaka U.), M. Yamauchi, K. Hidaka, S. Iwahori (Miyazaki U.), T. Kawamuro (NAOJ), K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U.), M. Shidatsu (Ehime U.) report on behalf of the MAXI team: The MAXI/GSC nova alert system triggered a bright uncatalogued X-ray transient source at 2018-09-23T04:08:25 UT . We obtain the source position at (R.A., Dec) = (38.304 deg, 6.301 deg) = (02 33 12, +06 18 03) (J2000) with a rectangular error box with the following corners: (R.A., Dec) = (37.429, 7.302) deg = (02 29 42, +07 18 07) (J2000) (R.A., Dec) = (37.165, 6.998) deg = (02 28 39, +06 59 52) (J2000) (R.A., Dec) = (39.010, 5.456) deg = (02 36 02, +05 27 21) (J2000) (R.A., Dec) = (39.274, 5.760) deg = (02 37 05, +05 45 35) (J2000) . There is an additional systematic uncertainty of 0.1 deg (90% containment radius). The X-ray flux averaged over the scan was 162 +- 26 mCrab (4.0-10.0keV, 1 sigma error). There was no significant excess flux in the previous transit at UT 02:35 and in the next transit at 05:41 UT with an upper limit of 20 mCrab for each.