TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  38567
SUBJECT: EP trigger ID 01709128824 is not a real source
DATE:    24/12/14 06:00:09 GMT
FROM:    EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>

D.-F. Hu (PMO, CAS), X.-Y. Zhou (PRIC), R.-Z. Li (YNAO, CAS), S.-X. Wen, H.-W. Pan (NAO, CAS) report on behalf of the Einstein Probe team: 

WXT trigger ID: 01709128824 is not a real source. It is a trigger caused by the arm of the point spread function of a bright known source on the detector image.

Launched on January 9, 2024, EP is a space X-ray observatory to monitor the soft X-ray sky with X-ray follow-up capability (Yuan et al. 2022, Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics).