UVCS, EIT, and LASCO observed a CME on 23 March 1998 that
exhibited a narrow region of extremely hot plasma
(electron temperature greater than 6 million K) emitting
in a spectral line arising from iron atoms with 18 of their
26 electrons removed.  This emission occurred at the expected
location of the current sheet predicted by the CME model
of Lin and Forbes (2000, JGR, 105, 2375).

The image shows how the iron emission occurs between the
post-CME arches on the limb (inner EIT image; seen also
with Yohkoh) and the CME itself (outer LASCO image).
The current sheet predicted by Lin and Forbes has a
lifetime and spatial scale that agrees with the spectroscopic
constraints.

(Ciaravella et al., 2001, Astrophys. J., in press)