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Fig. 5.

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Evidence of catastrophic cooling in the studied loop. We plot the snapshots of the loop evolution in the hotter 131 Å channel (top) and cooler 304 Å channel (bottom). The snapshots correspond to the loop not being visible before the reconnection event, to the heating of the loop immediately following the reconnection, the dimming of the central part of the loop in the coronal wavelengths and the coronal rain formation along that field line and to final stage corresponding to the evacuation of the loop following the coronal rain shower (left to right). The dotted line outlines the position of the loop top. The white horizontal bar in the 131 Å snapshot shows the evacuated loop bundle that became thermally unstable. The solid square indicates the location of the reconnection site. The blue dashed line shows the axis of the coronal loop bundle that becomes thermally unstable.

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