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The joint use of high-resolution data from PROBA2 and SDO satellites and LASCO/SOHO coronographs enabled us to examine early stages of initiation and propagation of six limb CMEs registered in June 2010 - June 2011. For five events under…

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Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) waves are global waves in the solar corona which can accelerate particles. The efficiency of the acceleration depends on local plasma characteristics e.g. Alfv\'en speed and the geometry of the magnetic field. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 C. Cuddy , D. M. Long , M. Nedal , S. Bhunia , P. T. Gallagher

We model the propagation of a coronal shock wave, using nonlinear geometrical acoustics. The method is based on the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approach and takes into account the main properties of nonlinear waves: i) dependence of the…

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The kinematics of a globally propagating disturbance (also known as an ``EIT wave") is discussed using Extreme UltraViolet Imager (EUVI) data Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO). We show for the first time that an impulsively…

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We use STEREO imagery to study the morphology of a shock driven by a fast coronal mass ejection (CME) launched from the Sun on 2011 March 7. The source region of the CME is located just to the east of a coronal hole. The CME ejecta is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 B. E. Wood , C. - C. Wu , A. P. Rouillard , R. A. Howard , D. G. Socker

Solar extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) waves generally refer to large-scale disturbances propagating outward from sites of solar eruptions in EUV imaging observations. Using the recent observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Zheng Sun , Hui Tian , P. F. Chen , Shuo Yao , Zhenyong Hou , Hechao Chen , Linjie Chen

We confirm the principal difference of the initiation phase between the impulsive and gradual CME motion trajectory revealed earlier in preliminary studies. Based on studying the dynamics of two impulsive CME (25 March 2008 and 13 June…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-07 V. Eselevich , M. Eselevich , V. Romanov , D. Romanov , K. Romanov

We present observations of the formation, propagation and decay of vortex- shaped features in coronal images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) associated with an eruption starting at about 2:30UT on Apr 8, 2010. The series of…

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This study characterises a series of type~II radio bursts associated with a CME that occurred on 14 May, focusing on the coronal conditions during the event and identifying the likely location of the shocks where the radio bursts are…

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Type-I bursts (i.e. noise storms) are the earliest-known type of solar radio emission at the metre wavelength. They are believed to be excited by non-thermal energetic electrons accelerated in the corona. The underlying dynamic process and…

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The Sun Watcher with Active Pixels and Image Processing (SWAP) EUV solar telescope on board the Project for On-Board Autonomy 2 (PROBA2) spacecraft has been regularly observing the solar corona in a bandpass near 17.4 nm since February…

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In this paper, we carry out multiwavelength observations of simultaneous longitudinal and transverse oscillations of a quiescent filament excited by an extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wave on 2023 February 17. A hot channel eruption generates an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 W. W. Pan , Q. M. Zhang , Y. Qiu

Solar coronal radio bursts are enhanced radio emission excited by energetic electrons accelerated during solar eruptions, studies on which are important for investigating the origin and physical mechanism of energetic particles and further…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 S. W. Feng , Y. Chen , H. Q. Song , B. Wang , X. L. Kong

Coronal Bright Fronts (CBF) are large-scale wavelike disturbances in the solar corona, related to solar eruptions. They are observed in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light as transient bright fronts of finite width, propagating away from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 K. Kozarev , A. Davey , A. Kendrick , M. Hammer , C. Keith

Solar extreme ultraviolet (EUV) waves are spectacular propagating disturbances with EUV enhancements in annular shapes in the solar corona. These EUV waves carry critical information about the coronal magnetised plasma that can shed light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Ruisheng Zheng , Bing Wang , Liang Zhang , Yao Chen , Robertus Erdelyi

Coronal and interplanetary shock waves produced by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are major drivers of space-weather phenomena, inducing major changes in the heliospheric radiation environment and directly perturbing the near-Earth…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Manon Jarry , Alexis P. Rouillard , Illya Plotnikov , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Alexander Warmuth

Numerical simulations of magnetosonic wave formation driven by an expanding cylindrical piston are performed to get better physical insight into the initiation and evolution of large-scale coronal waves. Several very basic initial…

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