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Series of Hα spectra and slit-jaw Hα filtergrams of a quiescent prominence taken at Pic du Midi Observatory on 7 November 1977 are studied. The observations have been digitized by means of an automated Joyce Loebl microdensitometer. The image processing of the Hα filtergrams reveals an internal structure of the prominence consisting of several arches. Series of high-resolution Hα spectra obtained with the slit position located on a selected part of one of the prominence arches have been chosen for Doppler-shift analysis. The obtained time series of the line-of-sight velocity reveal large velocity variations near the periphery of the arch and a strong dependence of the velocity (in sign and magnitude) on the position along the slit. The prominence arch shows also cyclic displacements along the line-of-sight direction implying Alfvén string-mode oscillations.
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Dermendjiev, V., Petrov, N., Detchev, M.T. et al. Line-of-Sight Velocity Fluctuations of a Quiescent Prominence. Solar Physics 202, 99–107 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011813114259
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