GCN Circular 43790
Subject
The EP-WXT trigger 01709258519 is likely caused by Mrk 421
Date
2026-02-21T10:01:16Z (2 days ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
Via
Web form
M.-H. Zhang, X. X. Sun, Tian-Yu Liu, Y. Liu (NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709258519 at the time of 2026-02-21T08:28:55 is likely associated with the known source Mrk 421.
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).