“…Regarding prominence heating, in order to exist, prominences need mechanical equilibrium as well as a detailed energy balance between heating and radiative cooling. Energy balance studies suggest that incident radiation provides most of the heating of the prominence plasma (Gilbert, 2015); however, this radiative heating depends on the illumination from the surrounding atmosphere. Moreover, radiative-equilibrium prominence models, constructed from a balance between incident radiation and cooling (Anzer and Heinzel, 1999;Heinzel, Anzer, and Gunár, 2010;Heinzel and Anzer, 2012), as well as differential emission measures have pointed out that a further unknown heating is required in order to reproduce the observed temperatures in the prominence cores (Labrosse et al, 2010;Heinzel and Anzer, 2012;Heinzel, 2015) and to balance radiative losses (Parenti and Vial, 2007;Parenti, 2014;Soler et al, 2016;Melis, Soler, and Ballester, 2021).…”