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Fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can drive shock waves capable of accelerating electrons to high energies. These shock-accelerated electrons act as sources of electromagnetic radiation, often in the form of solar radio bursts. Recent…

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Propagation of interplanetary (IP) shocks, particularly those driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), is still an outstanding question in heliophysics and space weather forecasting. Here we address effects of the ambient solar wind on the…

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Understanding the properties, especially the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) invariants, of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) measured in-situ is key to bridging the CME properties from the Sun to interplanetary space. In order to investigate CMEs…

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…

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While flare-associated CMEs generally show a strong association between flare X-ray flux and CME kinematics, their volumetric evolution and its link to both kinematics and flare activity remains less explored. In this study, we investigate…

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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

Studying the evolution of magnetic clouds entrained in coronal mass ejections using in-situ data is a difficult task since only a limited number of observational points is available at large heliocentric distances. Remote sensing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 A. Isavnin , A. Vourlidas , E. K. J. Kilpua

Motivated by the need to improve the ability to forecast whether a certain coronal mass ejection (CME) is to impact Earth, and by the insufficiency of statistical studies that analyze the whole erupting system with the focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 M. V. Sieyra , M. Cécere , H. Cremades , F. A. Iglesias , A. Sahade , M. Mierla , G. Stenborg , A. Costa , M. West , E. D'Huys

A fast and wide Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun on 2012-03-13. Its interplanetary counterpart was detected in situ two days later by STEREO-A and near-Earth spacecraft. We suggest that at 1 au the CME extended at least…

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The study of fast, eruptive events in the low solar corona is one of the science objectives of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) imagers on the recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which take full disk images in ten…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , G. Stenborg

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

In a space weather context, the most geoeffective coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are fast CMEs from Earth-facing solar active regions. These CMEs are difficult to characterize in coronagraph data due to their high speed (fewer observations),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Harshita Gandhi , Alexander James , Huw Morgan , Lucie Green

In 2010 May 23-24, SDO observed the launch of two successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which were subsequently tracked by the SECCHI suite onboard STEREO. Using the COR2 coronagraphs and the heliospheric imagers (HIs), the initial…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Lugaz , C. J. Farrugia , J. A. Davies , C. Möstl , C. J. Davis , I. I. Roussev , M. Temmer

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

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

The existence of shocks driven by Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) has always been assumed based on the superalfvenic speeds for some of these events and on indirect evidence such as radio bursts and distant streamer deflections. However, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Vourlidas , V. Ontiveros

We present a new method to extract the three-dimensional electron density profile and density compression ratio of shock fronts associated with Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) observed in white light coronagraph images. We demonstrate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-16 Ryun-Young Kwon , Angelos Vourlidas