GCN Circular 46132
Subject
The EP-WXT trigger 01709322206 is likely a flaring star
Date
2026-11-03T00:25:26Z (a day ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
Via
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Z.M. Wang (BNU), Q.Y. Wu (NAOC), H. Sun (NAOC) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709322206 at the time of 2026-11-02 23:26:00, is likely a stellar flare associated with HG 7-33. The estimated flux of the flare is around 1.2e-10 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4.0 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 2.8e31 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).