TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 40523 SUBJECT: The EP-WXT trigger 01709176612 is likely a flaring star DATE: 25/05/22 06:37:57 GMT FROM: EP Team at NAOC/CAS ep_ta@bao.ac.cn
Y. J. Song (NAO, CAS), Q. C. Shui (IHEP, CAS), H. Q. Cheng, Z. X. Ling (NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709176612 at the time of 2025-05-22T05:56:51, is likely a stellar flare associated with a Young Stellar Object Candidate Gaia DR3 6077506855610363648. The estimated flux of the flare is around 6e-11 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 1.15e32 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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