GCN Circular 40847
Subject
The EP-WXT trigger 01709179435 is likely a new outburst of the CV SS Cyg
Date
2025-06-27T04:28:06Z (7 hours ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
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B.-T. Wang (YNAO,CAS), J. H. Wu (GZHU), W. F. Wen(SZTU), J. W. Hu, Z. X. Ling (NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709179435 at the time of 2025-06-27T03:38:47, is likely a new outburst associated with CV SS Cyg. The estimated flux of the outburst is around 2e-10 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4.0 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 3e+32 erg/s.
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).