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An intense solar X-ray burst occurred on April 1, 1981. X-ray images of this gradual hard X-ray burst were observed with the hard X-ray telescope aboard the Hinotori satellite for the initial ten minutes of rise and maximum phases of the burst. The hard X-ray images (13–29 keV) look like a large loop without considerable time variation of an elongated main source during the whole observation period. The main X-ray source seems to lie along a ridge of a long coronal arcade 2 × 104 km above a neutral line, while a tangue-like sub-source may be another large coronal loop although the whole structure of the X-ray source looks like a large semi-circular loop. Both nonthermal and hot thermal (3–4 × 107 K) electrons are contributing to the source image. The ratio of these components changed in a wide range from 2.3 to 0.4 during the observation, while the image was rather steady. It suggests that both heating and accelerations of electrons are occurring simultaneously in a common source. Energetic electrons of 15–30 keV would be collisionally trapped in the coronal magnetic loops with density of the order of 1011 cm−3.
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Takakura, T., Ohki, K., Sakurai, T. et al. Hard X-ray imaging of a solar gradual hard X-ray burst on April 1, 1981. Sol Phys 94, 359–367 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151323
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