A new model is proposed for the spectrum of a type II burst from the 'rapid burster'. The spectrum of a type II burst has been considered to be well fitted with a blackbody spectrum with temperature T about 1.5 keV. Recent observations with Tenma and Exosat, however, have found an excess from the blackbody spectrum in the high-energy range (E greater than 10 keV). The high-energy component is approximated to be a power-law spectrum of f(E) proportional to E exp -4, where E and f(E) are the X-ray energy and observed counts per unit energy, respectively. The model explains this high-energy component gives a method to evaluate the velocity and the optical depth of the accretion flow from observations of the high-energy component. It is shown that the spectrum observed with Tenma can be fitted with the model.
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