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We present a 3D simulation of the dynamic emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from the top layer of the solar convection zone into the solar atmosphere and corona. It is found that after a brief initial stage of flux emergence during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Y. Fan

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from pseudostreamers represent a significant fraction of large-scale eruptions from the Sun. In some cases, these CMEs take a narrow jet-like form reminiscent of coronal jets; in others, they have a much…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 P. F. Wyper , B. J. Lynch , C. R. DeVore , P. Kumar , S. K. Antiochos , L. K. S. Daldorff

Predicting the magnetic field within an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) well before its arrival at Earth is one of the most important issues in space weather research. In this article, we compare the intrinsic flux rope type,…

The coronal magnetic field is the primary driver of solar dynamic events. Linear and circular polarization signals of certain infrared coronal emission lines contain information about the magnetic field, and to access this information,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 L. A. Rachmeler , S. E. Gibson , J. B. Dove , C. R. DeVore , Y. Fan

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

Magnetic flux ropes (FRs) are twisted structures appearing on the sun, predominantly in the magnetically concentrated regions. These structures appear as coronal features known as filaments or prominences in H$\alpha$ observations, and as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 P. Vemareddy

We have studied three Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) having clear signatures of magnetic cloud (MC) arrival at 1 AU and their associated solar sources during 2011 to 2013. Comparing the axial magnetic field strength (B0) of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Ranadeep Sarkar , Nandita Srivastava

A clear understanding of the nature of the pre-eruptive magnetic field configurations of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) is required for understanding and eventually predicting solar eruptions. Only two, but seemingly disparate, magnetic…

It is generally believed that the magnetic free energy accumulated in the corona serves as a main energy source for solar explosions such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In the framework of the flux rope catastrophe model for CMEs, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Y. Chen , Y. Q. Hu , S. J. Sun

The solar wind conditions at one astronomical unit (AU) can be strongly disturbed by the interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). A subset, called magnetic clouds (MCs), is formed by twisted flux ropes that transport an important…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Dasso , M. S. Nakwacki , P. Démoulin , C. H. Mandrini

With the global view and high-cadence observations from SDO/AIA and STEREO, many spatially separated solar eruptive events appear to be coupled. However, the mechanisms for "sympathetic" events are still largely unknown. In this study, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-17 M. Jin , C. J. Schrijver , M. C. M. Cheung , M. L. DeRosa , N. V. Nitta , A. M. Title

Our aim is to study the photospheric flux distribution of a twisted flux tube that emerges from the solar interior. We also report on the eruption of a new flux rope when the emerging tube rises into a pre-existing magnetic field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-12 V. Archontis , A. W. Hood

The thorough understanding on the initiation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which is manifested as a slow rise of pre-eruptive structures before the impulsive ejection in kinematics, is the key for forecasting the solar eruptions. In our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Chen Xing , Xin Cheng , Guillaume Aulanier , Mingde Ding

A close association between eruptive prominences and CMEs, both slow and fast CMEs, was reported in many studies. Sometimes it is possible to follow the material motion starting from the prominence (filament) activation to the CME in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Boris Filippov , Serge Koutchmy

We intend to provide a comprehensive answer to the question on whether all Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) have flux rope structure. To achieve this, we present a synthesis of the LASCO CME observations over the last sixteen years, assisted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Angelos Vourlidas , Ben J. Lynch , Russ A. Howard , Yan Li

Large-scale solar eruptions are generally accepted to have coronal magnetic flux ropes as their core structures. Recent studies found that the solar eruptions could be initiated by a sequence of flux feeding processes, during with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Quanhao Zhang , Shangbin Yang , Rui Liu , Min Zhang , Dong Wang , Ake Zhao , Shaoyu Lyu , Anchuan Song , Yuming Wang

Eruptions of filaments are defined by different parameters, specially, sigmoid handedness and direction of the eruption, which are important parameters for forecasting the geoeffectiveness of consequent interplanetary coronal mass ejection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Brigitte Schmieder , Anwesha Maharana , Jin Han Guo , Luis Linan , Stefaan Poedts

We performed magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a formation process of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), focusing on interaction (reconnection) between an ejecting flux rope and its ambient field. We examined three cases with different ambient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Daikou Shiota , Kanya Kusano , Takahiro Miyoshi , Kazunari Shibata

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are fundamental magnetic structures in solar eruptions, whose formation is generally attributed to (1) the emergence of subsurface flux tubes or (2) flux cancellation driven by photospheric horizontal flows and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Can Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama , Feng Chen , Chen Xing , Mingde Ding , Zekun Lu

We present the Solar Dynamics Observatory observations of two flux ropes respectively tracked out by material from a surge and a failed filament eruption on 2012 July 29 and August 04. For the first event, the interaction between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Ting Li , Jun Zhang