TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 44101 SUBJECT: EP-WXT trigger 01709259112: confirmation of a stellar flare by BOOTES-5 & BOOTES-7 DATE: 26/03/24 10:20:29 GMT FROM: I. Perez-Garcia at Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía <ipg@iaa.es> I. Perez-Garcia, S.-Y. Wu, A. J. Castro-Tirado, E. J. Fernandez-Garcia, M.D. Caballero-Garcia, S. Guziy, G. Garcia-Segura, R. Sanchez-Ramirez (IAA-CSIC), Y.-D. Hu (INAF-OAB), C. Perez del Pulgar, A. Castellon, I. Carrasco (Univ. de Malaga), L. Hernandez-Garcia (Univ. de Valparaiso), M. Gritsevich (Univ. of Helsinki), S. Jeong (ADD, Daejeon), D. Hiriart (IA-UNAM, Ensenada), W. H. Lee (UNAM, Mexico DF), D.-R. Xiong (Yunnan Observatories of CAS), B.-B. Zhang (Nanjing Univ.) and A. Maury (Space, San Pedro de Atacama), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report: Following the detection of trigger 01709259112 by EP-WXT (Tang et al. GCN 44099), both the 0.6m robotic telescopes BOOTES-5/JGU robotic telescope at San Pedro Martir Observatory (Mexico) and BOOTES-7 at San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) responded to the alert on March 24, 5:17 UT (i.e. 1 min after notification and 26 min after the trigger). Within the reported EP-FXT error circle we find the star SCOCENSUS 132-087992 decreasing 2.3, 1.9 and 1.6 mag in g, r and i filters during a 3.5 hours time interval, confirming EP-WXT trigger 01709259112 as due to a stellar flare. We thank the staff at San Pedro de Atacama Celestial Observations and San Pedro Martir Observatory for their excellent support. View this GCN Circular online at https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/44101. --- To unsubscribe, open this link in a web browser: https://gcn.nasa.gov/unsubscribe/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6InZzbmV0LW...