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Smoothed monthly mean coronal mass ejection (CME) parameters (speed, acceleration, central position angle, angular width, mass and kinetic energy) for Cycle 23 are cross-analyzed, showing a high correlation between most of them. The CME…

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Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) evolve significantly as they propagate from the Sun to the Earth, so remote observations of their changes in speed, strength of the magnetic field, density, and overall structure are critical for predicting…

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In this paper, we study the formation and early evolution of a limb coronal mass ejection (CME) and its associated shock wave that occurred on 2014 January 8. The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) images provided by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Linfeng Wan , Xin Cheng , Tong Shi , Wei Su , M. D. Ding

Understanding the thermal and turbulence properties of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) is essential for analyzing their evolution and interactions with the surrounding medium. This study explores these characteristics across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Soumyaranjan Khuntia , Wageesh Mishra

This study entails the fourth part of a global flare energetics project, in which the mass $m_{\mathrm{cme}}$, kinetic energy $E_{\mathrm{kin}}$, and the gravitational potential energy $E_{\mathrm{grav}}$ of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Markus J. Aschwanden

Using combined STEREO-A and STEREO-B EUVI, COR1 and COR2 data, we derive deprojected CME kinematics and CME `true' mass evolutions for a sample of 25 events that occurred during December 2007 to April 2011. We develop a fitting function to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 B. M. Bein , M. Temmer , A. Vourlidas , A. M. Veronig , D. Utz

The study of fast, eruptive events in the low solar corona is one of the science objectives of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) imagers on the recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which take full disk images in ten…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , G. Stenborg

The vertical current sheet (VCS) trailing coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is the key place where the flare energy release and the CME buildup take place through magnetic reconnection. It is often studied from the edge-on perspective for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Rui Liu , Yuming Wang

Many coronal mass ejections (CMEs) initially propagate non-radially, and then transition to radial propagation in the corona. This directional transition is a significant process that determines a CME's space weather effects but remains…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Huidong Hu , Chong Chen , Yiming Jiao , Bei Zhu , Rui Wang , Xiaowei Zhao , Liping Yang

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) typically exhibit a three-component structure in white-light (WL) coronagraphs. Utilizing the seamless observations of the inner corona ($\le$ 3 R$_\odot$), we have revealed the early evolution of the cavity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Shuting Li , Li Feng , Beili Ying , Hongqiang Song , Guanglu Shi , Jiahui Shan , Jie Zhao , Weiqun Gan

We present a validation of our recently proposed non-conventional method, Constant Acceleration Accounted Perspective (CAAP), for estimating the instantaneous expansion speed of coronal mass ejection (CMEs), even when only single-point in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Anjali Agarwal , Wageesh Mishra , Mathew J. Owens , Tanja Amerstorfer

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions from the Sun into interplanetary space. Despite being major space weather drivers, our knowledge of the CME properties in the inner heliosphere remains constrained by the scarcity of…

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Visible-light observations of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) performed with coronagraphs and heliospheric imagers (in primis on board the SOHO and STEREO missions) have offered so far the best way to study the kinematics and geometrical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 R. Susino , A. Bemporad

We report on the energetics of the 2012 March 12 polar coronal mass ejection (CME) originating from a southern latitude of ~60o. The polar CME is similar to low-latitude CMEs in almost all respects: three-part morphology, post eruption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 N. Gopalswamy , S. Yashiro , S. Akiyama

It is well known, that there is temporal relationship between CMEs and associated flares. The duration of the acceleration phase is related to the duration of the rise phase of a flare. We investigated CMEs associated with long duration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-06 Urszula Bak-Steslicka , Sylwester Kolomanski , Tomasz Mrozek

We analyze the detection capability of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) for all currently operating coronagraphs in space. We define as CMEs events that propagate beyond 10 solar radii with morphologies broadly consistent with a magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Angelos Vourlidas , L. A. Balmaceda , H. Xie , O. C. St. Cyr

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the primary drivers of severe space weather disturbances in the heliosphere. Models of CME dynamics have been proposed that do not fully include the effects of magnetic reconnection on the forces driving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-20 Brian T. Welsch

We analyze the interaction between an Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) detected in situ at the L1 Lagrange point on 2016 October 12 with a trailing High-Speed Stream (HSS). We aim to estimate the region in the interplanetary (IP)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Akshay Kumar Remeshan , Mateja Dumbovic , Manuela Temmer

We address the nature of EUV waves through direct observations of the formation of a diffuse wave driven by the expansion of a coronal mass ejection (CME) and its subsequent separation from the CME front. The wave and the CME on 2011 June 7…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , O. Olmedo , A. Vourlidas , M. D. Ding , Y. Liu

We report on the closest view of a coronal mass ejection observed by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP)/Wide-field Imager for {Parker} Solar PRobe (WISPR) instrument on September 05, 2022, when PSP was traversing from a distance of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Ritesh Patel , Matthew J. West , Daniel B. Seaton , Phillip Hess , Tatiana Niembro , Katharine K. Reeves