Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996soph..164..211h&link_type=abstract
Solar Physics, Volume 164, Issue 1-2, pp. 211-222
Physics
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Prominence Diagnostic, Polarization, Emission Measure
Scientific paper
We use the polarimetric and intensity measurements of Hα and HeI D3 lines in solar prominences to derive the true geometrical thickness for several quiescent prominences. The electron densities, derived from the collisional depolarization in Hα by Bommier et al. (1994), are used to evaluate the thickness from the emission measure. The emission measure was obtained from the theoretical correlation with the Hα integrated intensity, according to Gouttebroze, Heinzel, and Vial (1993). Theoretical electron densities obtained by latter authors are also compared with those of Bommier et al. (1994) and we find a very good agreement between them. The prominence geometrical thickness exhibits a relatively large range of values from about 100 km up to a few 104 km. The plasma densities vary by almost two orders of magnitude in the observed structures, but the total column mass in the direction perpendicular to the prominence sheet seems to be fairly constant for the set of prominences studied.
Bommier Veronique
Heinzel Petr
Vial Jean-Claude
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