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So we check the
microwave source hoping to see a somewhat different result. In this case we
are not doing full imaging, and use a more fundamental relationship between
the observed phase of the visibility and the source position on the sky. At
the time of flare, the OVSA array looked up the sun in a way that the
baseline of this combination has spatial resolution along the red line shown
here, while the N-S baseline combination has direction along the blue
line. The top panel here shows that a
sudden large change occurred in the phase at the time of flare, later comes
back to the original position to some extent. Thus indicates a large loop
source, a source centered high above the surface/limb by 80 arcsec. So we
premise a large loop acting as a trap. Together with the previous HXR images
we interpret that the whole system is like a trap-plus-precipitation, like
the next famous figure by Aschwanden.
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