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We report on a study comparing coronal flux ropes inferred from eruption data with their interplanetary counterparts constructed from in situ data. The eruption data include the source-region magnetic field, post-eruption arcades, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 N. Gopalswamy , S. Akiyama , S. Yashiro , H. Xie

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) have complex magnetic and density structures, which is the result of their interaction with the structured solar wind and with previous eruptions. ICMEs are revealed by in situ measurements and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-06 N. Lugaz , I. I. Roussev

The relative importance of different initiation mechanisms for coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on the Sun is uncertain. One possible mechanism is the loss of equilibrium of coronal magnetic flux ropes formed gradually by large-scale surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. R. Yeates , G. D. R. Attrill , Dibyendu Nandy , D. H. Mackay , P. C. H. Martens , A. A. van Ballegooijen

We present a catalogue of 35 interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) observed by the Juno spacecraft and at least one other spacecraft during its cruise phase to Jupiter. We identify events observed by MESSENGER, Venus Express, Wind,…

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are magnetic structures propagating from the Sun's corona to the interplanetary medium. With over 20 years of observations at the L1 libration point, ACE offers hundreds of ICMEs detected at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 F. Regnault , M. Janvier , P. Démoulin , F. Auchère , A. Strugarek , S. Dasso , C. Noûs

We investigate the kinetic properties of a typical fast-mode shock inside an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) observed on 1998 August 6 at 1 AU, including particle distributions and wave analysis with the in situ measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Mingzhe Liu , Ying D. Liu , Zhongwei Yang , L. B. Wilson , Huidong Hu

In order to have a comprehensive view of the propagation and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun to deep interplanetary space beyond 1 au, we carry out a kinematic analysis of 7 CMEs in solar cycle 23. The events are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Xiaowei Zhao , Ying D. Liu , Huidong Hu , Rui Wang

Coronal and interplanetary shock waves produced by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are major drivers of space-weather phenomena, inducing major changes in the heliospheric radiation environment and directly perturbing the near-Earth…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Manon Jarry , Alexis P. Rouillard , Illya Plotnikov , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Alexander Warmuth

It is generally known that multi-spacecraft observations of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) more clearly reveal their three-dimensional structure than do observations made by a single spacecraft. The launch of the STEREO twin…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tamitha Mulligan , Alysha A. Reinard , Benjamin J. Lynch

Observations of magnetic clouds, within interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), are often well described by flux rope models. Most of these assume either a cylindrical or toroidal geometry. In some cases, these models are also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Andreas J. Weiss , Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla , Christian Möstl , Martin A. Reiss , Tanja Amerstorfer , Rachel L. Bailey

We report on a numerical investigation of two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) which interact as they propagate in the inner heliosphere. We focus on the effect of the orientation of the CMEs relative to each other by performing four different…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Lugaz , C. J. Farrugia , W. B. Manchester , N. Schwadron

We use magnetic field measurements by the Juno spacecraft to catalog and investigate interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) beyond 1 AU. During its cruise phase, Juno spent about 5 years in the solar wind between 2011 September and…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Emma E. Davies , Robert J. Forsyth , Réka M. Winslow , Christian Möstl , Noé Lugaz

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are the interplanetary manifestations of solar eruptions. The overtaken solar wind forms a sheath of compressed plasma at the front of ICMEs. Magnetic clouds (MCs) are a subset of ICMEs with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 J. J. Masías-Meza , S. Dasso , P. Démoulin , L. Rodriguez , M. Janvier

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are intense solar explosive eruptions. CMEs are highly important players in solar-terrestrial relationships, and they have important consequences for major geomagnetic storms and energetic particle events. It…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Hengqiang Feng , Yan Zhao , Guoqing Zhao , Qiang Liu , Dejin Wu

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large scale eruptions observed close to the Sun. They are travelling through the heliosphere and possibly interacting with the Earth environment creating interruptions or even damaging new technology…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 C. Verbeke , B. Schmieder , P. Démoulin , S. Dasso , B. Grison , E. Samara , C. Scolini , S. Poedts

In situ observations of interplanetary (IP) coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) and IP shocks are important to study as they are the main components of the solar activity. Hundreds of IP shocks have been detected by various space missions at…

We present the first statistical analysis of complexity changes affecting the magnetic structure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), with the aim of answering the questions: How frequently do ICMEs undergo magnetic complexity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Camilla Scolini , Réka M. Winslow , Noé Lugaz , Tarik M. Salman , Emma E. Davies , Antoinette B. Galvin

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

We report on an observationally constrained analytical model, the INterplanetary Flux ROpe Simulator (INFROS), for predicting the magnetic-field vectors of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the interplanetary medium. The main architecture of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ranadeep Sarkar , Nat Gopalswamy , Nandita Srivastava

This study investigates the impact of spacecraft positioning and trajectory on in situ signatures of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Employing the 3DCORE model, a 3D flux rope model that can generate in situ profiles for any given point in…