MPS Seminar: Formation and magnetic configuration of solar filaments (P. F. Chen)

Solar filaments, or called prominences when appearing above the solar limb, are a spectacular phenomenon in the solar atmosphere, which provides a key link between solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Their formation is strongly related to chromospheric heating, and the heavy materials are supported either by magnetic flux ropes or sheared arcades, the determination of which relied on sporadic measurements. In this talk, I will review our work on solar filaments formation and how to determine the magnetic configuration of a filament simply from EUV images only.