GCN Circular 43348
Subject
The EP-WXT trigger 01709251112 is likely a flaring star
Date
2026-01-07T10:53:44Z (3 days ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
Via
Web form
H. Y. Ren (NAOC), Q.-C. Liu (THU), R.-Z. Li (YNAO, CAS) and H. Sun (NAOC) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709251112 at the time of 2026-01-07T10:12:47, is likely a stellar flare associated with PM J08310+4012. The estimated flux of the flare is around 8e-11 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4.0 keV.
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).