This event has generated considerable literature because it illustrates well the classical reconnection model (Forbes & Acton, 1996; Tsuneta, 1996). This page points out that a long-duration hard X-ray event accompanied the rise phase, just as expected from the Neupert effect:
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The blowup on the right shows that the non-thermal hard X-ray emission began more or less simultaneously with the soft X-ray emission.