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Where does the primary energy release take place in solar flares? Although this is a very fundamental question, no clear observational result had been achieved yet. Hard X-ray imaging observations of solar flares give us hints to answer this question. Actually a new type of hard X-ray source, which may be a very important hint, was observed with the Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT) on board Yohkoh. We summarize the characteristics of this hard X-ray source and other related observational results below.
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Masuda, S., Kosugi, T., Shibata, K., Hara, H., Sakao, T. (1996). Loop-Top Hard X-Ray Source in Solar Flares. In: Uchida, Y., Kosugi, T., Hudson, H.S. (eds) Magnetodynamic Phenomena in the Solar Atmosphere. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0315-9_35
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