{
  "editedBy": "Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov>",
  "eventId": "EP-WXT trigger 01709176612",
  "subject": "EP-WXT trigger 01709177124: confirmation of a stellar flare by BOOTES-6",
  "submittedHow": "web",
  "version": 3,
  "submitter": "I. Perez-Garcia at Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia <ipg@iaa.es>",
  "createdOn": 1748493173405,
  "body": "I. Perez-Garcia, S.-Y. Wu, E. Fernandez-Garcia, M.D. Caballero-Garcia, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, S. Guziy, G. Garcia-Segura and A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC, Granada), P. J. Meintjes and H. J. van Heerden (UFS, South Africa), A. Martin-Carrillo and L. Hanlon (UCD, Ireland), M. Gritsevich (Univ. of Helsinki) and C. J. Perez del Pulgar (UMA, Malaga), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:\n\nFollowing the detection of trigger 01709177124 by EP-WXT (Hu et al. GCNC [40568](https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/40568)), the BOOTES-6/DPRT 0.6m robotic telescope at Boyden Observatory in Maselspoort (South Africa) responded to the alert on May. 28, 17:17 UT (i.e. 32 min after detection and 2 min after notification). Within the reported EP-FXT error circle we find the star Gaia DR3 5778356748440163840 decreasing in brightness from 14.0 to 16.0 mag in clear filter and using Gaia DR3 Gmag magnitude as reference, during a ~3 hour time interval, confirming as due to a stellar flare. \n\nWe thank the staff at Boyden Observatory for their excellent support.",
  "format": "text/markdown",
  "bibcode": "2025GCN.40569....1P",
  "circularId": 40569,
  "editedOn": 1748525418106
}