GCN Circular 41823
Subject
The EP-WXT trigger 01709240768 is likely a flaring star
Date
2025-09-13T02:07:50Z (11 days ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
Via
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W.Chen, X. Mao, Z.X. Ling(NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709240768 at the time of 2025-09-12T23:11:57 is likely a stellar flare associated with LSPM J0011+0227. The estimated flux of the flare is around 6x10^-11 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4.0 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 1.2x10^31 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).