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Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) contributes to the perturbation of solar wind in the heliosphere. Thus, depending on the different phases of the solar cycle and the rate of CME occurrence, contribution of CMEs to solar wind parameters near…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Wageesh Mishra , Nandita Srivastava , Zavkiddin Mirtoshev , Yuming Wang

Stellar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are a growing research field, especially during the past decade. The large number of so far detected exoplanets raises the open question for the CME activity of stars, as CMEs may strongly affect…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-20 Martin Leitzinger , Petra Odert

Roles played by the currents in the impulsive phase of a solar flare and in a coronal mass ejection (CME) are reviewed. Solar flares are magnetic explosions: magnetic energy stored in unneutralized currents in coronal loops is released into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 D. B. Melrose

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are energetic expulsions of organized magnetic features from the Sun. The study of CME quasi-periodicity helps establish a possible relationship between CMEs, solar flares, and geomagnetic disturbances. We used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Xia Li , Hui Deng , Feng Wang , Linhua Deng , Ying Mei

Stellar eruptive events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), can affect planetary habitability by disturbing the stability of their atmospheres. For instance, strong stellar flares and CMEs can trigger atmospheric escape and,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Nuri Park , Evgenya L. Shkolnik , Joe Llama

We study the role of the coronal magnetic field configuration of an active region in determining the propagation direction of a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME occurred in the active region 11944 (S09W01) near the disk center on 2014…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , Xinghua Dai , Zhongwei Yang , Chong Huang , Huidong Hu

Aims. Working towards improved space weather predictions, we aim to quantify how the critical height at which the torus instability drives coronal mass ejections (CMEs) varies over time in a sample of solar active regions. Methods. We model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Alexander W. James , David R. Williams , Jennifer O'Kane

The Sun's atmosphere is frequently disrupted by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), coupled with flares and energetic particles. In the standard picture, the coupling is explained by magnetic reconnection at a vertical current sheet connecting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-11 Tingyu Gou , Rui Liu , Bernhard Kliem , Yuming Wang , Astrid M. Veronig

In order to have a comprehensive view of the propagation and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun to deep interplanetary space beyond 1 au, we carry out a kinematic analysis of 7 CMEs in solar cycle 23. The events are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Xiaowei Zhao , Ying D. Liu , Huidong Hu , Rui Wang

The familiar correlation between the speed and angular width of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is also found in solar cycle 24, but the regression line has a larger slope: for a given CME speed, cycle 24 CMEs are significantly wider than…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-18 Nat Gopalswamy , Sachiko Akiyama , Seiji Yashiro , Hong Xie , Pertti Mäkelä , Grzegorz Michalek

Context. Observations reveal that shocks can be driven by fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and play essential roles in particle accelerations. A critical ratio, $\delta$, derived from a shock standoff distance normalized by the radius of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Beili Ying , Li Feng , Bernd Inhester , Marilena Mierla , Weiqun Gan , Lei Lu , Shuting Li

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are huge expulsions of magnetized matter from the Sun and stars, traversing space with speeds of millions of kilometers per hour. Solar CMEs can cause severe space weather disturbances and consumer power…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Astrid M. Veronig , Petra Odert , Martin Leitzinger , Karin Dissauer , Nikolaus C. Fleck , Hugh S. Hudson

We investigate the coronal and interplanetary evolution of a coronal mass ejection (CME) launched on 2010 September 4 from a source region linking two active regions (ARs) 11101 and 11103, using extreme ultraviolet imaging, magnetogram,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Huidong Hu , Ying D. Liu , Rui Wang , Xiaowei Zhao , Bei Zhu , Zhongwei Yang

The magnetic fields of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), which originate close to the Sun in the form of a flux rope, determine their geoeffectiveness. Therefore, robust flux rope-based models of CMEs are required to perform…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Talwinder Singh , Tae K. Kim , Nikolai V. Pogorelov , Charles N. Arge

Decades of observations show that CMEs can deflect from a purely radial trajectory yet no consensus exists as to the cause of these deflections. Many of theories attribute the CME deflection to magnetic forces. We developed ForeCAT (Kay et…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. Kay , L. F. G. dos Santos , M. Opher

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed near the Sun via LASCO coronographic imaging are the most important solar drivers of geomagnetic storms. ICMEs, their interplanetary, near-Earth counterparts, can be detected in-situ, for example, by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Yurchyshyn , Q. Hu , R. P. Lepping , B. J. Lynch , J. Krall

We present a validation of our recently proposed non-conventional method, Constant Acceleration Accounted Perspective (CAAP), for estimating the instantaneous expansion speed of coronal mass ejection (CMEs), even when only single-point in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Anjali Agarwal , Wageesh Mishra , Mathew J. Owens , Tanja Amerstorfer

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are primary drivers of space weather and studying their evolution in the inner heliosphere is vital to prepare for a timely response. Solar wind streams, acting as background, influence their propagation in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-30 Prateek Mayank , Bhargav Vaidya , Wageesh Mishra , D. Chakrabarty

We model the observed charge states of the elements C, O, Mg, Si, and Fe in the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ejecta. We concentrate on "halo" CMEs observed in situ by ACE/SWICS to measure ion charge states, and also remotely by STEREO when…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 J. Martin Laming , Elena Provornikova , Yuan-Kuen Ko

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