UVSP and VLA observations of the 24 June 1980 flare: Asymmetric or isotropic beaming?

Observations of the 15:22 UT flare of 24 June 1980 were made using the Very Large Array (VLA) at 6 cm wavelength simultaneously with the Hard X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (HXIS) aboard the Solar Maximum Mission. It was found that at the peak of the impulsive phase, the brightest microwave point appeared to lie between the soft (3.6 8.0 keV) and hard (22 30 keV) X-ray maxima, which were themselves separated by ∼ 20″ (Kundu et al., 1984). Since the publication of these results, we have analyzed the imaging data from the Ultraviolet Spectrometer Polarimeter (UVSP) with the goal of narrowing the possible interpretations of the event. Like the VLA and HXIS, the UVSP observations provide information about the location of the primary electrons; the observations taken together suggest that the fast electrons were symmetrically distributed within the flare loop.