TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 40754 SUBJECT: The EP-WXT trigger 01709178975 is likely a flaring star DATE: 25/06/17 11:56:18 GMT FROM: EP Team at NAOC/CAS ep_ta@bao.ac.cn
X. L. Chen (YNU), H. Z. Wu (HUST), Y. P. Zhou (NJU), Y. Q. Zhao (USTC, PRIC), J. W. Hu, Y. Liu (NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709178975 at the time of 2025-06-17T11:22:06, is likely a stellar flare associated with CD-32 11039. The estimated flux of the flare is around 1e-10 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4.0 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 2.9e32 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).
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