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The detailed analysis of the 1992 February 21 flare indicates that magnetic reconnection is responsible for heating of the thermal plasmas produced in the flare. The plasma density enhancement presumably associated with slow shocks is observed. The Yohkoh observations of this flare fit well with the Petschek model, and the structure of the slow shock is determined with the compressible Petschek theory.
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Tsuneta, S. (1996). Evidence of Magnetic Reconnection 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_30
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