TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  45760
SUBJECT: The EP-WXT trigger 01709320726 is likely a flaring star
DATE:    26/09/26 13:17:20 GMT
FROM:    EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>

X. X. Sun(NAO, CAS), K. T. Wang(IHEP, CAS),  H. H. Zhang(NJU), Y. J. Zhang (PKU), H. W. Peng(THU) ,Z.-X. Ling(NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:

The EP-WXT trigger 01709320726 at the time of 2026-09-26T11:52:25, is likely a stellar flare associated with LP 705-28. The estimated flux of the flare is around 8e-11 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4.0 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 1e31 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).