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Morphological and evolutional features of Ellerman bombs were studied with Hα filtergrams of two active regions very close to the solar limb. We quantitatively determined the elongated or spike-like shape of the bomb. The mean apparent length of 174 bombs is 1.1 arc sec, while 80% of 204 bombs have a diameter of less than 0.6 arc sec. The mean lifetime of 77 bombs is about 12 min at Hα - 1.2 Å. The first maximum brightness of a typical bomb is attained, on average in about 2 min. Bombs grow longer in the first brightening phase and their mean upward velocity explains the blue asymmetry of Hα emission profiles of moustaches.
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Kurokawa, H., Kawaguchi, I., Funakoshi, Y. et al. Morphological and evolutional features of Ellerman bombs. Sol Phys 79, 77–84 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00146974
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