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Observations are described of the sudden disappearance of a long quiescent filament whose development could be traced through four rotations from its first appearance on the disk between two well-separated active centers. Following the disappearance, plage-like chromospheric brightenings were observed on either side of the filament axis, with the separation distance increasing with time.
The results are discussed in relationship to models in which the prominence is supported by photospheric magnetic fields and the brightenings result from the gravitational fall of material following the prominence eruption.
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McCabe, M. Sudden disappearance of a large quiescent prominence on the solar disk, April 28, 1967. Sol Phys 12, 115–124 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02276572
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02276572