TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 6053 SUBJECT: GRB 070129: Swift detection of a burst DATE: 07/01/29 23:49:36 GMT FROM: David Burrows at PSU/Swift O. Godet (U Leicester), D. N. Burrows (PSU), M. M. Chester (PSU), S. T. Holland (CRESST/GSFC/USRA), J. A. Kennea (PSU), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD), K. M. McLean (LANL/UTD), K. L. Page (U Leicester), D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (NASA/ORAU), M. Stamatikos (NASA/ORAU), R. L. C. Starling (U Leicester), E. Troja (INAF-IASFPA), D. E. Vanden Berk (PSU) and S. D. Vergani (DIAS-DCU) report on behalf of the Swift Team: At 23:35:10 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and located GRB 070129 (trigger=258408). Swift slewed immediately to the burst. The BAT on-board calculated location is RA, Dec 37.014, +11.697 which is RA(J2000) = 02h 28m 03s Dec(J2000) = +11d 41' 51" with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve shows no obvious variation in the count rate, which is not uncommon for image triggers. The XRT began observing the field at 23:37:23 UT, 134 seconds after the BAT trigger. XRT found a bright, fading, uncatalogued X-ray source located at RA, Dec 37.0033, +11.6852 which is RA(J2000) = 02h 28m 00.7s Dec(J2000) = 11d 41' 06.7" with an uncertainty of 4.7 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment). This location is 57 arcseconds from the BAT on-board position, within the BAT error circle. The initial flux in the 2.5s image was 3.3e-09 erg/cm2/s (0.2-10 keV). UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 100 seconds with the White (160-650 nm) filter starting 143 seconds after the BAT trigger. No afterglow candidate has been found in the initial data products. The overlap of the sub-image and the XRT error circle is 100%. The 8'x8' region for the list of sources generated on-board covers 100% of the XRT error circle. The list of sources is typically complete to about 18 mag. No correction has been made for the expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of 0.14.