A number of solar filaments/prominences demonstrate failed eruptions, when a filament at first suddenly starts to ascend and then decelerates and stops at some greater height in the corona. The mechanism of the termination of eruptions is not clear yet. One of the confining forces able to stop the eruption is the gravity force. Using a simple model of a partial current-carrying torus loop anchored to the photosphere and photospheric magnetic field measurements as the boundary condition for the potential magnetic field extrapolation into the corona, we estimated masses of 15 eruptive filaments. The values of the filament mass show rather wide distribution in the range of $4\times10^{15}$ – $270\times10^{16}$ g. Masses of the most of filaments, laying in the middle of the range, are in accordance with estimations made earlier on the basis of spectroscopic and white-light observations.

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大量经历失败的火山爆发

许多太阳灯丝/日珥显示失败的喷发，当灯丝起初突然开始上升，然后减速并停在日冕中的某个更高高度时。喷发终止的机制尚不清楚。能够阻止喷发的约束力之一是重力。使用锚定到光球的部分载流环面环的简单模型和光球磁场测量作为潜在磁场外推到日冕中的边界条件，我们估计了 15 条喷发细丝的质量。长丝质量的值在以下范围内表现出相当广泛的分布 $4\times10^{15}$ – $270\times10^{16}$ G。大多数细丝的质量，位于该范围的中间，与早先根据光谱和白光观测所做的估计一致。