TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 41460 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250818k: EP/FXT observation of AT 2025ulz DATE: 25/08/21 08:38:43 GMT FROM: EP Team at NAOC/CAS ep_ta@bao.ac.cn
R.-Z. Li (YNAO, CAS), X.-P. Xu, H. Sun, D.-Y. Li, Y. Liu, W. Yuan (NAO ,CAS) and B. Zhang (HKU) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
We performed a ToO observation with the Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT) on board the Einstein Probe (EP) for AT2025ulz, reported by Stein et al. (GCN 41414) as a possible counterpart to the LVK sub-threshold event S250818k (GCN 41437, 41440).
The observation was carried out from 2025-08-20 08:31:13 (UTC) to 2025-08-20 13:19:05 (UTC), with a total exposure time of about 9 ks. The midpoint time of this observation is 2025-08-20T10:55:09 (UTC), approximately 57.6 hours after the trigger (LVK Collaboration, GCN 41437).
The source was not detected with EP/FXT with an upper limit of 1.1e-3 cts/s at 0.5-10 keV. The estimated flux upper limit is 1.68e-14 erg/cm^2/s (90% C.L., at 0.5-10 keV). Given the redshift of z = 0.0848 (GCN 41436), this gives a rough luminosity upper limit of 3.2e41 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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