Criterion of quiescent and eruptive prominences with helical structure

Abstract

Many authors have studied the regularity and properties of evolution and eruption of the helical prominence observationally or theoretically. We proposed that Lundquist field may be a good configuration to describe the inner magnetic distribution of the helical promincence by analyzing this kind of quiescent and eruptive prominences. In this note,we discuss the stable criterion of Lundquist field according to energy principle and compare theory with observational data of 28 helical prominences. This work not only has confirmed the close relation between the Lundquist field and the helical prominence, but al-