DETECTION OF THE A1742-294 X-RAY BURSTER ABOVE 35 KEV

A transient hard state of the A1742-294 X-ray burster was detected by Granat/SIGMA in the course of 1992 fall observations of the Galactic c enter (GC) region. During the previous five sets of GC observations in 1990-1992, the flux above 35 keV was below the SIGMA detection limit. The spectrum observed in 1992 fall in the 35-200 keV band can be appr oximated by the emission of optically thin plasma with temperature T-e similar to 40 keV, much higher than T-e similar to 8 keV derived from the observations in the standard X-ray band by Granat/ART-P in 1990. Nevertheless, the spectrum of A1742-294 remains significantly softer t han that of the nearby black hole candidate 1E 1740.7 - 2942.