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   North Polar Spur forms a bright narrow ridge in the 408MHz radio map
   and the ROSAT soft X-ray map at around (l=30d, b=15-30d). This happens
   to be the direction where Gould Belt is seen tangentially from us. A
   recent analysis of neutral hydrogen temperature distribution using
   radio 21cm surveys has revealed a hot ridge running parallel to those
   in radio and soft X-ray but displaced by about 10 degree. The bright
   ridges in radio and soft X-ray are mutually displace by about 5 degree.
   We may well be seeing an SNR shock front associated with Gould Belt
   tangentially. We propose to scan this region in the hard X-ray band for
   the first time and study profiles in chemical composition, ionization
   state and emission mechanism. We expect to find a particle acceleration
   site here.
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