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We report measurements of line intensities and line widths for three quiescent prominences observed with the Naval Research Laboratory slit spectrograph on ATM/Skylab. The wavelengths of the observed lines cover the range 1175 Å to 1960 Å. The measured intensities have been calibrated to within approximately a factor 2 and are average intensities over a 2 arc sec by 60 arc sec slit. We derive nonthermal velocities from the measured line widths. The nonthermal velocity is found to increase with temperature in the prominence transition zone. Electron densities and pressures are derived from density sensitive line ratios. Electron pressures for two of the prominences are found to lie in the range 0.04–0.08 dyn cm−2, while values for the third and most intense and active of the three prominences are in the range 0.07–0.22 dyn cm−2.
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Moe, O.K., Cook, J.W. & Mango, S.A. EUV observations of quiescent prominences from Skylab. Sol Phys 61, 319–334 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00150417
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