GCN Circular 42832
Subject
EP251124a (EP-WXT trigger 01709248862) is triggered by the known source AWM 7
Event
Date
2025-11-25T09:23:49Z (3 days ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
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H.Zhou (PMO, CAS), J.-Y. Cao (IHEP), H.-N. Yang, and Z.-X. Ling (NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
Refined analysis of the WXT data shows that EP251124a (GCN #42816) is associated with the Cluster of Galaxies AWM 7. The estimated flux is ~6.17e-11 erg/cm2/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).