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As a follow-up study on Sun-to-Earth propagation of fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs), we examine the Sun-to-Earth characteristics of slow CMEs combining heliospheric imaging and in situ observations. Three events of particular interest,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Ying D. Liu , Huidong Hu , Chi Wang , Janet G. Luhmann , John D. Richardson , Zhongwei Yang , Rui Wang

During 2011 February 13 to 15, three Earth-directed CMEs launched in successively were recorded as limb CMEs by coronagraphs (COR) of STEREO. These CMEs provided an opportunity to study their geometrical and kinematic evolution from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Wageesh Mishra , Nandita Srivastava

Simulating coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from their origin in active regions (ARs) to their propagation to Earth remains challenging, particularly when aiming to resolve AR scales and employ realistic magnetic field strengths without…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Liping Yang , Huichao Li , Jinhan Guo , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Two major coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed during the Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI) are compared with the catastrophe (CA) and eruptive flux rope (EF) models. The objective is to test two distinct mechanisms for CMEs by modeling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Chia-Hsien Lin , James Chen

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the largest-scale eruptive phenomena in the solar system. Associated with enormous plasma ejections and energy release, CMEs have an important impact on the solar-terrestrial environment. Accurate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Zihao Yang , Hui Tian , Xianyong Bai , Yajie Chen , Yang Guo , Yingjie Zhu , Xin Cheng , Yuhang Gao , Yu Xu , Hechao Chen , Jiale Zhang

A powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) occurred on 2017 September 10 near the end of the declining phase of the historically weak solar cycle 24. We obtain new insights concerning the geometry and kinematics of CME-driven shocks in relation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Ying D. Liu , Bei Zhu , Xiaowei Zhao

We present an algorithm to detect the outer edges of Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) events as seen in differences of Heliospheric Imager STEREO SECCHI HI-1 images from either A or B spacecraft, as well as its implementation in Python.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Marc D. Nichitiu

In this work we performed a polarimetric study of a fast and wide coronal mass ejection (CME) observed on 12 July 2012 by the COR1 and COR2 instruments onboard Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission. The CME source region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Marilena Mierla , Bernd Inhester , Andrei N. Zhukov , Sergei V. Shestov , Alessandro Bemporad , Philippe Lamy , Serge Koutchmy

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are thought to drive collisionless shocks in the solar corona, which in turn have been shown capable of accelerating solar energetic particles (SEPs) in minutes. It has been notoriously difficult to extract…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kamen A. Kozarev , John C. Raymond , Vasili V. Lobzin , Michael Hammer

We investigate the Sun-Earth dynamics of a set of 38 well-observed Coronal Mass Ejections(CMEs) using data from the STEREO, SOHO missions and WIND instrument. We seek to quantify the relative contributions of Lorentz force and aerodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Nishtha Sachdeva

This work studies the kinematics of the leading edge and the core of 6 Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) in the combined field of view of Sun Watcher using Active Pixel System detector and Image Processing (SWAP) on-board PRoject for On-Board…

Accurate estimation of propagation characteristics of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is crucial for predicting their geoeffectiveness. Stereoscopic techniques to study the kinematics of CMEs generally have been carried out using remote…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Sandeep Kumar , Nandita Srivastava , Parthib Banerjee , Nat Gopalswamy

Understanding and predicting the structure and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the heliosphere remains one of the most sought-after goals in heliophysics and space weather research. A powerful tool for improving current…

The thermodynamic evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) in the inner corona (< 1.5 R$_{sun}$) is not yet completely understood. In this work, we study the evolution of thermodynamic properties of a CME core observed in the inner corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Jyoti Sheoran , Vaibhav Pant , Ritesh Patel , Dipankar Banerjee

The Coronal Multichannel Polarimeter (CoMP) measures not only the polarization of coronal emission, but also the full radiance profiles of coronal emission lines. For the first time, CoMP observations provide high-cadence image sequences of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 H. Tian , S. Tomczyk , S. W. McIntosh , C. Bethge , G. de Toma , S. Gibson

Previous survey studies reported that coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can exhibit various structures in white-light coronagraphs, and $\sim$30\% of them have the typical three-part feature in the high corona (e.g., 2--6 $R_\odot$), which has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Hongqiang Song , Leping Li , Zhenjun Zhou , Lidong Xia , Xin Cheng , Yao Chen

Forecasting the in situ properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from remote images is expected to strongly enhance predictions of space weather, and is of general interest for studying the interaction of CMEs with planetary…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) with angular width $> 30^{\circ}$ have been observed to occur at a higher rate during solar cycle 24 compared to cycle 23, per sunspot number. This result is supported by data from three independent databases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Gordon Petrie

We investigate how coronal mass ejections (CMEs) propagate through, and interact with, the inner heliosphere between the Sun and Earth, a key question in CME research and space weather forecasting. CME Sun-to-Earth kinematics are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ying D. Liu , Janet G. Luhmann , Noé Lugaz , Christian Möstl , Jackie A. Davies , Stuart D. Bale , Robert P. Lin

Fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) generate standing or bow shocks as they propagate through the corona and solar wind. Although CME shocks have previously been detected indirectly via their emission at radio frequencies, direct imaging has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shane A. Maloney , Peter T. Gallagher