GCN Circular 42791
Subject
The EP-WXT trigger 01709248635 is likely a flaring star
Date
2025-11-21T16:45:02Z (4 days ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
Via
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Y.-H. I. Yin (HKU), B.-T. Wang (YNAO), H.-Z. Wu (HUST) and W. D. Zhang (NAOC) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709248635 at the time of 2025-11-21T16:11:59, is likely a stellar flare associated with a T Tauri Star HD 285751. The estimated flux of the flare is around 1.0e-10 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4.0 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 1.3e32 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).