Post-flare coronal arches

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Chromosphere, Coronal Loops, Noise Storms, Solar Flares, Solar Maximum Mission, Solar Radio Bursts, Astronomical Models, Brightness Distribution, Solar Storms, Spaceborne Astronomy

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The gigantic arches in the corona detected by the Hard X-ray Imaging Spectrometer aboard the SMM are stationary, and they form the base of a stationary type I radio noise storm initiated by the flare. They are visible in X rays for ten hours and more and may be revived, in temperature, density, and brightness, if another two-ribbon flare appears below them. It is suggested that they are built up through a reconnection process during the flare from the upper reconnected loops in the Kopp and Pneuman (1976) model. Striking brightness variations are seen quasi-periodically in the corona below and above the arch a few hours after the flare. The variations are seen at about the same time in soft X rays, hard X rays, and on centimeter microwaves in the low corona, as well as at metric waves in the type I noise-storm region. Despite their flarelike intensity, however, the variations have little response in the transition layer (O V line) and no response at all in the chromosphere (H-alpha). It is suggested that these semiperiodic brightenings derived from repetitive acceleration processes in plasmoids that encircle the arch perpendicular to the H-parallel = 0 line from the low corona through the noise storm region, being completely detached from the lower atmospheric layers.

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