GCN Circular 41877
Subject
The EP-WXT trigger 01709243841: Las Cumbres discovery of the optical counterpart
Date
2025-09-19T03:28:55Z (3 days ago)
Edited On
2025-09-19T13:15:29Z (3 days ago)
From
Wenxiong Li at NAOC <liwenxiong1992@gmail.com>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Wenxiong Li at NAOC <liwenxiong1992@gmail.com>
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Wenxiong Li (NAOC), Iair Arcavi (TAU), Ido Keinan (TAU), David Sand (U of Arizona)
We observed the position of EP-WXT trigger 01709243841 with a Las Cumbres 1m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory 0.8 hours after the Einstein Probe WXT trigger. We took 2x300s exposures in the broad optical w band. We find an uncataloged source at RA=298.55383, Dec=-48.8378 within the EP/WXT error circle and measure the following preliminary photometry calibrated to the r band:
MJD 60937.127 Mag 17.0
Additional followup is encouraged.