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We have analyzed the physical conditions of the plasma in post-flare loops with special emphasis on dynamics and energy transport using SXT-data (hot plasma) and optical ground-based data from Pic du Midi, Wrocław, and Ondřejov (cool plasma). By combining the Hα observations with the SXT images we can understand the relationship between cool and hot plasmas, the process of cooling post-flare loops and the mechanism which maintains the long duration of these loops. Using recent results of NLTE modeling of prominence-like plasmas, we derive the emission measure of cool Hα loops and this gives us a realistic estimate of the electron density (2.2 × 1010 cm−3). Then, by comparing this emission measure with that of hot loops derived from SXT data, we are able to estimate the ratio between electron densities in hot and cool loops taking into account the effect of geometrical filling factors. This leads to the electron density in hot loops 7 × 109 cm−3. We also derive the temperature of hot X-ray loops (≃ 5.5 × 106 K), which, together with the electron density, provides the initial values for solving the time-dependent energy balance equation. We obtain the cooling times which are compared to a typical growth-time of the whole loop system (∼ 2000 s). In the legs of cool Hα loops, we observe an excess of the emission measure which we attribute to the effect of Doppler brightening (due to large downflow velocities).
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Schmieder, B., Heinzel, P., Wiik, J.E. et al. Relation between cool and hot post-flare loops of 26 June 1992 derived from optical and X-ray (SXT-Yohkoh) observations. Sol Phys 156, 337–361 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00670231
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