GCN Circular 45052
Subject
The EP-WXT trigger 01709272671 is likely a flaring star
Date
2026-06-28T02:08:13Z (23 days ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
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J. P. Chen (SYSU), K. J. Zhang, D. Zhu (YNU), Y. J. Yi (BNU), Z. X. Ling (NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709272671 at the time of 2026-06-27T17:53:04 (UTC), is likely a stellar flare associated with RX J1942.2-2045. The estimated flux of the flare is around 1.6 x 10^(-10) erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4.0 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 4.8 x 10^(30) 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).