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The role of small-scale coronal eruptive phenomena in the generation and heating of the solar wind remains an open question. Here, we investigate the role played by coronal jets in forming the solar wind by testing whether temporal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Diego de Pablos , David M. Long , Christopher J. Owen , Gherardo Valori , Georgios Nicolaou , Louise K. Harra

Aims. The study of the morphology of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is an auspicious approach to understanding how magnetic fields are structured within CMEs. Although earlier studies have suggested an asymmetry in the width of CMEs in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Hebe Cremades , Francisco A. Iglesias , Luciano A. Merenda

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

Large magnetic structures are launched away from the Sun during solar eruptions. They are observed as (interplanetary) coronal mass ejections (ICMEs or CMEs) with coronal and heliospheric imagers. A fraction of them are observed insitu as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 P. Démoulin , S. Dasso , V. Lanabere , M. Janvier , C. Noûs

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

We report on the first comprehensive study of the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) associated with $\sim$25 MeV solar energetic proton (SEP) events in 1980-2013 observed in the low/inner corona by the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) Mk3 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 I. G. Richardson , O. C. St Cyr , J. T. Burkepile , H. Xie , B. J. Thompson

Two major processes have been proposed to convert the coronal magnetic energy into the kinetic energy of a coronal mass ejection (CME): resistive magnetic reconnection and ideal macroscopic magnetohydrodynamic instability of magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Q. Song , Y. Chen , D. D. Ye , G. Q. Han , G. H. Du , G. Li , J. Zhang , Q. Hu

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), as they can inject a large amounts of mass and magnetic flux into the interplanetary space, are the primary source of space weather phenomena on the Earth. The present review first briefly introduces the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-28 Wageesh Mishra , Luca Teriaca

The Fixed-\Phi (F\Phi) and Harmonic Mean (HM) fitting methods are two methods to determine the average direction and velocity of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from time-elongation tracks produced by Heliospheric Imagers (HIs), such as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-18 N. Lugaz , P. Kintner

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on stars other than the Sun have proven very difficult to detect. One promising pathway lies in the detection of type II radio bursts. Their appearance and distinctive properties are associated with the…

In-situ measurements carried out by spacecraft in radial alignment are critical to advance our knowledge on the evolutionary behavior of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their magnetic structures during propagation through interplanetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Camilla Scolini , Reka M. Winslow , Noé Lugaz , Stefaan Poedts

We present our results on the correlation of non-interacting coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar energetic particles (SEPs). A statistical analysis was conducted on 25 SEP events and the associated CME and flare during the ascending…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-06 Anitha Ravishankar , Grzegorz Michalek

We present the study of two solar eruptive events observed on December 7 2020 and October 28 2021.Both events were associated with full halo CMEs and flares.These events were chosen because they show a strong non-radial direction of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Angelos Valentino , Jasmina Magdalenic

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions of plasma from the Sun that play an important role in space weather. Faraday rotation (FR) is the rotation of the plane of polarization that results when a linearly polarized signal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Jason E. Kooi , Patrick D. Fischer , Jacob J. Buffo , Steven R. Spangler

We report on the parallel analysis of the periodic behaviour of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) based on 21 years [1996 -- 2016] of observations with the SOHO/LASCO--C2 coronagraph, solar flares, prominences, and several proxies of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Tatiana Barlyaeva , Julien Wojak , Philippe Lamy , Brice Boclet , Imre Toth

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), powerful solar eruptions with massive plasma ejected into the interplanetary space, are caused by the release of the magnetic free enengy stored in coronal electric currents. Photospheric current helicity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Zheng Sun , Ting Li , Xinkai Bian , Yijun Hou , Ioannis Kontogiannis , Ziqi Wu

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) represent one type of the major eruption from the Sun. Their interplanetary counterparts, the interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs), are the direct manifestations of these structures when they propagate into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 Qiang Hu , Wen He , Lingling Zhao , Edward Lu

In this article, we present the multi-viewpoint and multi-wavelength analysis of an atypical solar jet based on the data from Solar Dynamics Observatory, SOlar, and Heliospheric Observatory, and Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Reetika Joshi , Yuming Wang , Ramesh Chandra , Quanhao Zhang , Lijuan Liu , Xiaolei Li

We analyze five events of the interaction of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) with the remote coronal rays located up to 90^\circ away from the CME as observed by the SOHO/LASCO C2 coronagraph. Using sequences of SOHO/LASCO C2 images, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Boris Filippov , A. K. Srivastava