GCN Circular 38567
Subject
EP trigger ID 01709128824 is not a real source
Date
2024-12-14T06:00:09Z (a month ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
Via
Web form
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).