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1991 November 10 (M7.9)
A GOES M7.9 solar flare occurred on 1991 November 10 at an H-alpha location of S15E43 (heliographic coordinates). The soft X-ray flux began at 20:04 (72240 s), peaked at 20:13 (72780 s) and ended at 20:33 (73980 s) UT (GOES Geophysical Data Website). OSSE received a BATSE transient trigger at 72333 s and the four OSSE detectors slewed to the scan-angle position of the Sun. Two of the four detectors then initiated +/- 4.5 degree on-source-off-source viewing strategies while the other two detectors remained pointed at the Sun. Because of the extreme DSA-angle of the Sun, however, the views of the top two detectors were obstructed and significant data were recorded by only the bottom two detectors.
Significant emmission of up to about 600 keV was observed during a ~300 s time interval (72340-72640 s). Count rate time profiles in various energy windows at a temporal resolution of ~8 s are shown in Figure 1. A representative count spectrum is shown in Figure 2. A broken power law which hardened from an index of about -3.8 below a break energy of ~220 keV to about -3.3 above the break energy fit the data better than a single power law. The total fluence above 50 keV was 3876 +/- 19 photons cm-2.
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