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Owing to our dependance on spaceborne technology, an awareness of disturbances in the near-Earth space environment is proving to be increasingly crucial. Earth-directed Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) emanating from the Sun are the primary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-17 Arun Babu

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are spectacular ejections of material from the Sun as seen in the coronal field of view. Regular observations are possible with both ground-based and space-based coronagraphs. I present our current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nandita Srivastava

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are subject to changes in their direction of propagation, tilt, and other properties as they interact with the variable solar wind. We investigated the heliospheric propagation of 15 Earth-impacting CMEs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Sandeep Kumar , Nandita Srivastava , Nat Gopalswamy , Ashutosh Dash

The state of the space environment plays a significant role for forecasting of geomagnetic storms produced by disturbances of the solar wind (SW). Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) passing through the heliosphere often have a prolonged (up to…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Vladimir Slemzin , Farid Goryaev , Denis Rodkin

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are solar eruptions of plasma and magnetic fields that significantly impact Space Weather, causing disruptions in technological systems and potential damage to power grids when directed towards Earth.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Shantanu Jain , Tatiana Podladchikova , Galina Chikunova , Karin Dissauer , Astrid M. Veronig

Our study attempts to understand the collision characteristics of two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched successively from the Sun on 2013 October 25. The estimated kinematics, from three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Wageesh Mishra , Yuming Wang , Nandita Srivastava

The near-Sun kinematics of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) determine the severity and arrival time of associated geomagnetic storms. We investigate the relationship between the deprojected speed and kinetic energy of CMEs and magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Sanchita Pal , Dibyendu Nandy , Nandita Srivastava , Nat Gopalswamy , Suman Panda

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the largest type of eruptions on the Sun and the main driver of severe space weather at the Earth. In this study, we implement a force-free spheromak CME description within 3-D magnetohydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-20 Gordon J. Koehn , Ravindra T. Desai , Emma E. Davies , Robert J. Forsyth , Jonathan P. Eastwood , Stefaan Poedts

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

Shock waves driven by fast and wide coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are highly efficient particle accelerators involved in the production of solar energetic particle (SEP) events. The gradual SEP event measured by STEREO-A and B on October…

Despite studying Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) for several years, we are yet to have a complete understanding of their kinematics. In this regard, the change in kinematics of the CMEs, as they travel from the inner corona ($<$ 3R$_\odot)$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Satabdwa Majumdar , Ritesh Patel , Vaibhav Pant , Dipankar Banerjee

Investigating the heliospheric evolution and consequences of Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is critical to understanding the solar-terrestrial relationship. For the first time, Heliospheric Imagers (HIs) onboard STEREO, providing multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-22 Wageesh Mishra

Aims. The magnetic field of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) determines their structure, evolution, and energetics, as well as their geoeffectiveness. However, we currently lack routine diagnostics of the near-Sun CME magnetic field, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 S. Patsourakos , M. K. Georgoulis

Two major coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed during the Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI) are compared with the catastrophe (CA) and eruptive flux rope (EF) models. The objective is to test two distinct mechanisms for CMEs by modeling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Chia-Hsien Lin , James Chen

The Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) provides high cadence and high resolution images of the structure and morphology of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the inner heliosphere. CME directions and propagation speeds have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-31 Savani , N. P. , Davies , J. A. , Davis , C. J. , Shiota , D. , Rouillard , A. P. , Owens , M. J. , Kusano , K. , Bothmer , V. , Bamford , S. P. , Lintott , C. J. , Smith , A

Context. Studying the kinematic and dynamic evolution of fast eruptive events from the middle to high solar corona is a primary objective of the Metis coronagraph on Solar Orbiter. During perihelion, Metis acquires visible light images at a…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are a major driver of space weather. To assess CME geoeffectiveness, among other scientific goals, it is necessary to reliably identify and characterize their morphology and kinematics in coronagraph images.…

In this study we refine a CME model presented in an earlier study on the global energetics of solar flares and associated CMEs, and apply it to all (860) GOES M- and X-class flare events observed during the first 7 years (2010-2016) of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-26 Markus J. Aschwanden

We analyse in this work the propagation and geoeffectiveness of four successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that erupted from the Sun during 21--23 May 2013 and that were detected in interplanetary space by the Wind and/or STEREO-A…