We report on EUV observations of a solar limb flare obtained by the SUMER spectrometer. A time series was taken with fixed slit position and several spectral windows that covered a wide temperature range (104-107 K), preceded and followed by contextual raster scans in a He I line. During the time series, a C4.6 flare occurred in the region, also imaged in the EUV by SOHO/EIT and in soft X rays by YOHKOH/SXT. The temporal evolution seen in the SUMER spectra reveals a close spatial relationship and a correlated dynamical behaviour of the hot (T ≈ 107 K) and cool (T ≈ 104 K) material, which are difficult to reconcile with the notion (based on the Kopp-Pneuman flare model) that cool loops form at a lower height than the hot flare loops.
Broken-up spectra of the loop-top hard X-ray source during a solar limb flare
