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We present a detailed study of an earth-directed coronal mass ejection (Full halo CME) event happened on 2011 February 15 making use of white light observations by three coronagraphs and radio observations by Wind/WAVES. We applied three…

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Transverse waves are sometimes observed in solar helmet streamers, typically after the passage of a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME-driven shock wave moves the streamer sideways, and a decaying oscillation of the streamer is observed…

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Solar cycle 23 witnessed the observation of hundreds of halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs), thanks to the high dynamic range and extended field of view of the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on board the Solar and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Nat Gopalswamy , Seiji Yashiro , Hong Xie , Sachiko Akiyama , Pertti Makela

During the propagation of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), evolution of the ICME-driven shock along with interactions with other solar wind structures, planetary bodies, and general changes to their morphology can alter…

We examine the propagation and interaction properties of three successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from 2001 November 21-22, with a focus on their connection with the behaviors of the associated long-duration complex type II radio…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Ying D. Liu , Xiaowei Zhao , Bei Zhu

Coronal bright fronts (CBFs) are large scale wavefronts that propagate though the solar corona at hundreds of kilometers per second. While their kinematics have been studied in detail, many questions remain regarding the temporal evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 David M. Long , Edward E. DeLuca , Peter T. Gallagher

We present a statistical result on the properties of solar source regions that have produced 57 fastest front-side coronal mass ejections (CMEs) (speed 1500 km/s) occurred from 1996 June to 2007 January. The properties of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Yuming Wang , Jie Zhang

Estimating Alfven speeds is of interest in modelling the solar corona, studying the coronal heating problem and understanding the initiation and propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We assume here that the corona is in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Regnier , E. R. Priest , A. W. Hood

In this work, we establish an ICME list from 1996 to 2014 based on the in-situ observations from the WIND and ACE satellites. Based on this ICME list, we extend the statistical analysis of the ICMEs to the solar maximum phase of solar cycle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yutian Chi , Chenglong Shen , Yuming Wang , Pinzhong Ye , S. Wang

We study the coronal mass ejection (CME) with a complex acceleration profile. The event occurred on April 23, 2009. It had an impulsive acceleration phase, an impulsive deceleration phase, and a second impulsive acceleration phase. During…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-19 A. A Reva , A. S. Kirichenko , A. S. Ulyanov , S. V. Kuzin

We present multi-point in situ observations of a complex sequence of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) which may serve as a benchmark event for numerical and empirical space weather prediction models. On 2010 August 1, instruments on various…

In this paper, with a survey through the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) data from 1996 to 2009, we present 11 events with plasma blobs flowing outwards sequentially along a bright coronal ray in the wake of a coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hong-Qiang Song , Xiang-Liang Kong , Yao Chen , Bo Li , Gang Li , Shi-Wei Feng , Li-Dong Xia

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on stars other than the Sun have proven very difficult to detect. One promising pathway lies in the detection of type II radio bursts. Their appearance and distinctive properties are associated with the…

EUV images of Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) from the AIA show striations related to the magnetic field structure in both open and closed magnetic regions. The brightness contrast implies coronal density contrasts of at least a factor of 6…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. C. Raymond , P. I. McCauley , S. R. Cranmer , C. Downs

In this article, we present the relationship between prominence eruptions (PEs) and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from May 2010 to December 2019 covering most of solar cycle 24. We used data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Pooja Devi , Nat Gopalswamy , Seiji Yashiro , Sachiko Akiyama , Ramesh Chandra , Kostadinka Koleva

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

We present a statistical analysis of 60 strong large-scale EUV wave events that occurred during January 2007 to February 2011 with the STEREO twin spacecraft regarding their kinematical evolution and wave pulse characteristics. For the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nicole Muhr , Astrid Maria Veronig , Ines Waltraud Kienreich , Bojan Vrsnak , Manuela Temmer , Bianca Maria Bein

The tenuous supersonic solar wind that streams from the top of the corona passes through a natural boundary -- the Alfv\'en surface -- that marks the causal disconnection of individual packets of plasma and magnetic flux from the Sun…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 C. E. DeForest , T. A. Howard , D. J. McComas

The trajectories of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are often seen to substantially deviate from a purely radial propagation direction. Such deviations occur predominantly in the corona and have been attributed to "channeling" or deflection…

We determine the 3D geometry and deprojected mass of 29 well-observed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their interplanetary counterparts (ICMEs) using combined STEREO-SOHO white-light data. From the geometry parameters we calculate the…