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The behaviour of the flare in the period of enhancement and maximum of hard X-ray, microwave and decimetric type IV continuum is analysed. The elongation of the Hα ribbons and microwave source disclose that the energy release site was shifting through a system of loops with a velocity less than 200 km s−1, and that the energy was carried down the field lines with a velocity of about 1000 km s−1 implying the thermal conduction front mechanism of energy transport. Several processes of energy release are considered and it is concluded that an explanation in terms of succeeding interactions of neighbouring loops, involving fast reconnection of their poloidal components is in best agreement with the observations.
Proceedings of the Second CESRA Workshop on Particle Acceleration and Trapping in Solar Flares, held at Aubigny-sur-Nère (France), 23–26 June, 1986.
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Vršnak, B., Ruždjak, V., Messerotti, M., Zlobec, P. (1987). Evidence for Interacting Loop Process in a Phase of the May 16, 1981 Flare. In: Trottet, G., Pick, M. (eds) Particle Acceleration and Trapping in Solar Flares. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3999-8_3
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