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RATAN-600 observations of a microwave source located above the active region NOAA 10105 obtained on September 7–20, 2002 with a frequency resolution of ∼10% have revealed a spectral feature near 3.04 cm that can be interpreted as a neutral hydrogen line. This feature was observed September 11, 2002, in both absorption and emission, and was detected in the spectra of various portions of the source (sunspot, flocculus, and background). The maximum line depth of (35 ± 5)% of the source brightness was observed at the start of the observations (9.2h UT) in the flocculus in absorption. The line intensity decreased rapidly with time, becoming less than the measurement errors by 9.7h UT. It is most likely that the 3.04 cm emission is related to a 2B chromospheric flare (M2.2 X-ray burst) observed at ∼7.5h UT in the floccular field, near the main sunspot of NOAA 10105. In this case, the total duration of the event was about two hours. These observations are consistent with earlier statistical studies, and refines these based on data with higher spatial resolution. Recommendations for further observational studies of the solar 3.04-cm hydrogen line are presented; requirements for theories of the 3.04 cm line taking into account nonequilibrium states of the active-region plasma are indicated.
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Original Russian Text © N.G. Peterova, N.A. Topchilo, T.P. Borisevich, 2011, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, Vol. 88, No. 9, pp. 912–919.
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Peterova, N.G., Topchilo, N.A. & Borisevich, T.P. Solar 3.04 cm hydrogen line emission revealed in observations of the active region NOAA 10105. Astron. Rep. 55, 841–848 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772911080087
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