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Are All Prominences Either Sinistral or Dextral?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J.B. Zirker ,
J.-L. Leroy  and
V. Gaizauskas
J.B. Zirker
Affiliation:
National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, N.M. 88349, USA E-mail: [email protected]
J.-L. Leroy
Affiliation:
I.A.C.-T.H.È.M.I.S., E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain E-mail: [email protected]
V. Gaizauskas
Affiliation:
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa K1A OR6, Canada

Abstract

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A reanalysis of the prominence magnetic field measurements obtained by Leroy et al. (1983) indicates that only a small fraction of these prominences did not obey the chirality rules they discovered and that Martin et al. (1994) confirmed.

Type
Global Patterns
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 167: New Perspectives on Solar Prominences , 1998 , pp. 439 - 441
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998

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