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High resolution X-ray images are used to study the temperature structure and evolution of two spatially resolved, but compact, solar flares. Both flares developed within a magnetic loop whose footpoints were separated by typically 15000 km, and involved primary energy release at one footpoint. This was followed by transfer of chromospheric material into and around the loop. The flares involved total energies differing by over an order of magnitude, and they follow different evolutionary paths because of this.
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Simnett, G.M. (1983). Temperature Structure of Spatially Resolved Hard X-ray Flares. In: Kane, S.R., Uchida, Y., Tanaka, K., Hudson, H.S. (eds) Recent Advances in the Understanding of Solar Flares. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7228-5_35
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