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Filament eruptions are magnetically driven violent explosions commonly observed on the Sun and late-type stars, sometimes leading to monster coronal mass ejections that directly affect the nearby planets' environments. More than a century…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Hechao Chen , Hui Tian , Quanhao Zhang , Chuan Li , Chun Xia , Xianyong Bai , Zhenyong Hou , Kaifan Ji , Yuanyong Deng , Xiao Yang , Ziyao Hu

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun and are considered the main driver of adverse space weather events. Hence, undrstanding its formation process, particularly the magnetic topology, is critical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Jinhan Guo , Y. W. Ni , B. Schmieder , Y. Guo , C. Xia , P. Devi , R. Chandra , S. Poedts , R. Joshi , Y. H. Zhou , H. T. Li , P. F. Chen

Magnetic free energy powers solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and the buildup of magnetic helicity might play a role in the development of unstable structures that subsequently erupt. To better understand the roles of energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yang Liu , Brian T. Welsch , Gherardo Valori , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Yang Guo , Etienne Pariat , Sung-Hong Park , Julia K. Thalmann

We examine the two kinds of major energetic phenomena that occur in the solar atmosphere: eruptive and confined events. The former describes flares with associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs), while the latter denotes flares without…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Yuming Wang , Jie Zhang

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are eruptive events that cause a solar-type star to shed mass and magnetic flux. CMEs tend to occur together with flares, radio storms, and bursts of energetic particles. On the Sun, CME-related mass loss is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Steven R. Cranmer

Magnetic flux ropes are the centerpiece of solar eruptions. Direct measurements for the magnetic field of flux ropes are crucial for understanding the triggering and energy release processes, yet they remain heretofore elusive. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Yuqian Wei , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Haimin Wang , Ju Jing , Dale E. Gary

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

Aims. Our goal is to thoroughly analyse the dynamics of single and multiple solar eruptions, as well as a stealth ejecta. The data were obtained through self-consistent numerical simulations performed in a previous study. We also assess the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 Dana-Camelia Talpeanu , Stefaan Poedts , Elke D'Huys , Marilena Mierla , Ian G. Richardson

Solar eruptions are explosive disruption of coronal magnetic fields, and often launch coronal mass ejections into the interplanetary space. Intriguingly, many solar eruptions fail to escape from the Sun, and the prevailing theory for such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Chaowei Jiang , Aiying Duan , Peng Zou , Zhenjun Zhou , Xinkai Bian , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Solar active regions and the processes that occur in them have been extensively studied and analyzed and many types of models and characterizations have been proposed for the occurrence of different eruptive events that take place in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 N. Granados Hernández , S. Vargas Domínguez

We present several models of the magnetic structure of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs). First, we model CMEs as expanding force-free magnetic structures. While keeping the internal magnetic field structure of the stationary solutions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-04 Maxim Lyutikov , Konstantinos Nektarios Gourgouliatos

The explosion of space weather research since the early 1990s has been partly fueled by the unprecedented, uniform, and extended observations of solar disturbances from space and ground based instruments. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-15 Nat Gopalswamy

Stealth coronal mass ejection (CMEs) are eruptions from the Sun that are not associated with appreciable low-coronal signatures. Because they often cannot be linked to a well-defined source region on the Sun, analysis of their initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 Erika Palmerio , Christina Kay , Nada Al-Haddad , Benjamin J. Lynch , Wenyuan Yu , Michael L. Stevens , Sanchita Pal , Christina O. Lee

We examine a simulation of flux emergence and cancellation, which shows a complex sequence of processes that accumulate free magnetic energy in the solar corona essential for the eruptive events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

Many questions must be answered before understanding the relationship between the emerging magnetic flux through the solar surface and the extreme geoeffective events. The main ingredients for getting X-ray class flares and large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Brigitte Schmieder , Jinhan Guo , Guillaume Aulanier , Anwesha Maharana , Stefaan Poedts

We describe and analyze observations by the Solar Dynamics Observatory of the emergence of a small, bipolar active region within an area of unipolar magnetic flux that was surrounded by a circular, quiescent filament. Within only eight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Sally Dacie , Tibor Torok , Pascal Demoulin , Mark Linton , Cooper Downs , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , David Long , James Leake

Filament eruptions often lead to coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which can affect critical technological systems in space and on the ground when they interact with the geo-magnetosphere in high speeds. Therefore, it is an important issue to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hongqiang Song , Yao Chen , Jie Zhang , Xin Cheng , Hui Fu , Gang Li

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), as crucial drivers of space weather, necessitate a comprehensive understanding of their initiation and evolution in the solar corona, in order to better predict their propagation. Solar Cycle 24 exhibited…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Nitin Vashishtha , Vaibhav Pant , Dana-Camelia Talpeanu , Dipankar Banerjee , Shantanu Rastogi

Context: Many previous studies have shown that the magnetic precursor of a coronal mass ejection (CME) takes the form of a magnetic flux rope, and a subset of them have become known as `hot flux ropes' due to their emission signatures in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Alexander W James , Lucie M Green , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Gherardo Valori

Energetic flares and associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from young magnetically active solar-like stars can play a critical role in setting conditions for atmospheric escape as well aspenetration of accelerated particles into their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Christina Kay , Vladimir S. Airapetian , Theresa Lüftinger , Oleg Kochukhov