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To predict whether a coronal mass ejection (CME) will impact Earth, the effects of the background on the CME's trajectory must be taken into account. We develop a model, ForeCAT (Forecasting a CME's Altered Trajectory), of CME deflection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Christina Kay , Merav Opher , Rebekah M. Evans

There have been few attempts in the past to understand the collision of individual cases of interacting Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). We selected 8 cases of interacting CMEs and estimated their propagation and expansion speeds, direction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Wageesh Mishra , Yuming Wang , Nandita Srivastava , Chenglong Shen

Forecasting the geomagnetic effects of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is currently an unsolved problem. CMEs, responsible for the largest values of the north-south component of the interplanetary magnetic field, are the key driver of…

Predicting transit times of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) from their initial parameters is a very important subject, not only from the scientific perspective, but also because CMEs represent a hazard for human technology. We used a neural…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-06 D. Sudar , B. Vršnak , M. Dumbović

The first severe (G4) geomagnetic storm of Solar Cycle 25 occurred on 23-24 April 2023, following the arrival of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on 23 April. The characteristics of this CME, measured from coronagraphs (speed and mass), did…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Evangelos Paouris , Angelos Vourlidas , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Phillip Hess , Guillermo Stenborg

We present a statistical analysis of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) imaged by the Heliospheric Imager (HI) instruments aboard NASAs twin-spacecraft STEREO mission between April 2007 and August 2017 for STEREO-A and between April 2007 and…

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

Prediction of the effects of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on Earth strongly depends on knowledge of the interplanetary magnetic field southward component, Bz. Predicting the strength and duration of Bz inside a CME with sufficient accuracy…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 M. Kubicka , C. Möstl , T. Amerstorfer , P. D. Boakes , L. Feng , J. P. Eastwood , O. Tormanen

We discuss how some coronal mass ejections (CMEs) originating from the western limb of the Sun are associated with space weather effects such as solar energetic particles (SEPs), shock or geo-effective ejecta at Earth. We focus on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-18 N. Lugaz , I. I. Roussev , I. V. Sokolov

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are violent ejections of magnetized plasma from the Sun, which can trigger geomagnetic storms, endanger satellite operations and destroy electrical infrastructures on the Earth. After systematically searching…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Hong-peng Lu , Hui Tian , He-chao Chen , Yu Xu , Zhen-yong Hou , Xian-yong Bai , Guang-yu Tan , Zi-hao Yang , Jie Ren

Understanding and forecasting the geoeffectiveness of a coronal mass ejection (CME) is crucial for protecting infrastructure in the near-Earth space environment and on Earth. In this study, we present a novel fusion model to forecast the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Zhaoxin Yan , Jason T. L. Wang , Haimin Wang , Harim Lee , Ju Jing , Yan Xu , Chunhui Xu , Vasyl Yurchyshyn

Aims. We present the validation results for arrival times and geomagnetic impact of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), using the cone and spheromak CME models implemented in EUropean Heliospheric FORecasting Information Asset (EUHFORIA).…

To accurately predict the space weather effects of coronal mass ejection (CME) impacts at Earth one must know if and when a CME will impact Earth, and the CME parameters upon impact. Kay et al. (2015b) presents Forecasting a CME's Altered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 C. Kay , M. Opher , R. C. Colaninno , A. Vourlidas

We present a study that combines remote-sensing and in-situ observations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) interacting with the nearby heliospheric current sheet (HCS). The sequence of eruptive events under study culminates in the largest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Manuela Temmer , Stephan G. Heinemann , Nina Dresing , Mateja Dumbovic , Eleanna Asvestari

The largest geomagnetic storms of solar cycle 24 so far occurred on 2015 March 17 and June 22 with $D_{\rm st}$ minima of $-223$ and $-195$ nT, respectively. Both of the geomagnetic storms show a multi-step development. We examine the…

The application of machine learning to the study of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their impacts on Earth has seen significant growth recently. Understanding and forecasting CME geoeffectiveness is crucial for protecting infrastructure…

The arrival time prediction of Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is an area of active research. Many methods with varying levels of complexity have been developed to predict CME arrival. However, the mean absolute error (MAE) of predictions…

Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) are the primary sources of geomagnetic storms at Earth. Negative out-of-ecliptic component (Bz) of magnetic field in the ICME or its associated sheath region is necessary for it to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Talwinder Singh , Dinesha V. Hegde , Tae K. Kim , Nikolai V. Pogorelov

The arrival of a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at the Earth resulted in a great geomagnetic storm on 10 May 2024, the strongest storm in the last two decades. We investigate the kinematic and thermal evolution of the successive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Soumyaranjan Khuntia , Wageesh Mishra , Anjali Agarwal

In this study, we analyze nine CMEs from the Sun to Earth as observed in both the remote sensing and in situ data sets. To date, this is the largest study of Earth impacting CMEs using the multi-view point remote sensing and in situ data.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-20 Robin C. Colaninno