Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on the early Sun may have profoundly influenced the planetary atmospheres of early Solar System planets. Flaring young solar analogues serve as excellent proxies for probing the plasma environment of the young Sun, yet their CMEs remain poorly understood. Here we report the detection of multi-wavelength Doppler shifts in Far-Ultraviolet (FUV) and optical lines during a flare on the young solar analog EK Draconis. During and before a Carrington-class (∼1032 erg) flare, warm FUV lines (∼105 K) exhibit blueshifted emission at 300-550 km s−1, indicative of a warm eruption. 10 minutes later, the Hα line shows slow (70 km s−1), long-lasting (≳2 hrs) blueshifted absorptions, suggesting a cool (∼104 K) filament eruption. This provides evidence of multi-temperature and multi-component nature of a stellar CME. If Carrington-class flares/CMEs occurred frequently on the young Sun, they may have cumulatively impacted the early Earth's magnetosphere and atmosphere.
@article{arxiv.2510.22110,
title = {Discovery of multi-temperature coronal mass ejection signatures from a young solar analogue},
author = {Kosuke Namekata and Kevin France and Jongchul Chae and Vladimir S. Airapetian and Adam Kowalski and Yuta Notsu and Peter R. Young and Satoshi Honda and Soosang Kang and Juhyung Kang and Kyeore Lee and Hiroyuki Maehara and Kyoung-Sun Lee and Cole Tamburri and Tomohito Ohshima and Masaki Takayama and Kazunari Shibata},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22110},
year = {2025}
}
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36 pages, 3 figures, 8 extended data figures, published in Nature Astronomy (2025)