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Solar Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale ejections of plasma and magnetic field from the corona, which propagate through interplanetary space. CMEs are the most significant drivers of adverse space weather on Earth, but the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-22 Shane Maloney

Magnetism defines the complex and dynamic solar corona. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are thought to be caused by stresses, twists, and tangles in coronal magnetic fields that build up energy and ultimately erupt, hurling plasma into…

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) influence the interplanetary environment over vast distances in the solar system by injecting huge clouds of fast solar plasma and energetic particles (SEPs). A number of fundamental questions remain about how…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Oleg Stepanyuk , Kamen Kozarev , Mohamed Nedal

Solar coronal dimmings have been observed extensively in the past two decades. Due to their close association with coronal mass ejections (CMEs), there is a critical need to improve our understanding of the physical processes that cause…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Meng Jin , Mark C. M. Cheung , Marc L. DeRosa , Nariaki V. Nitta , Carolus J. Schrijver

We investigate the impact of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on the transport and acceleration of relativistic protons in the solar wind using a coupled 3D Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation and a test-particle approach. The CME is driven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Ahmed Houeibib , Filippo Pantellini , Lea Griton

The free energy that is dissipated in a magnetic reconnection process of a solar flare, generally accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), has been considered as the ultimate energy source of the global energy budget of solar flares in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Markus J. Aschwanden , Nat Gopalswamy

Despite studying Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) for several years, we are yet to have a complete understanding of their kinematics. In this regard, the change in kinematics of the CMEs, as they travel from the inner corona ($<$ 3R$_\odot)$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Satabdwa Majumdar , Ritesh Patel , Vaibhav Pant , Dipankar Banerjee

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the main drivers of disturbances in the solar heliosphere because they propagate and interact with the magnetic field of the solar wind. It is crucial to investigate the evolution of CMEs and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Tinatin Baratashvili , Emma Davies , Eva Weiler , Brigitte Schmieder , Pascal Démoulin , Stefaan Poedts

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

How to properly understand coronal mass ejections (CMEs) viewed in white-light coronagraphs is crucial to many relative researches in solar and space physics. The issue is now particularly addressed in this paper through studying the source…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-12 Yuming Wang , Caixia Chen , Bin Gui , Chenglong Shen , Pinzhong Ye , S. Wang

Enhancements of the comic-ray intensity as observed by detectors on the ground have been observed 71 times since 1942. They are due to solar energetic particles accelerated in the regions of solar flares deep in the corona, or in the shock…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 H. Moraal , K. G. McCracken , R. A. Caballero-Lopez

The different appearances exhibited by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are believed to be in part the result of different orientations of their main axis of symmetry, consistent with a flux-rope configuration. There are observational reports…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-26 I. Cabello , H. Cremades , L. Balmaceda , I. Dohmen

Propagation of interplanetary (IP) shocks, particularly those driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), is still an outstanding question in heliophysics and space weather forecasting. Here we address effects of the ambient solar wind on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-04 Chin-Chun Wu , Kan Liou , Brian E. Wood , Lynn Hutting

Multi-spacecraft observations are used to study the in-situ effects of a large CME erupting from the farside of the Sun on 3 November 2011, with particular emphasis on the associated solar energetic particle (SEP) event. At that time both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-12 A. J. Prise , L. K. Harra , S. A. Matthews , D. M. Long , A. D. Aylward

Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) show a large variety in their kinematic properties. CMEs originating in active regions and accompanied by strong flares are usually faster and accelerated more impulsively than CMEs associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-11 T. Toeroek , B. Kliem

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events have been observed by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft since its launch in 2018. These events include sources from solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Onboard PSP is the IS\(\odot\)IS…

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) accelerated from shocks driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are one of the major causes of geomagnetic storms on Earth. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the occurrence and intensity of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Anitha Ravishankar , Grzegorz Michalek

Solar wind models predict that the mass flux carried away from the Sun in the solar wind should be extremely sensitive to the temperature in the corona, where the solar wind is accelerated. We perform a direct test of this prediction in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 D. Stansby , L. Berčič , L. Matteini , C. J. Owen , R. French , D. Baker , S. T. Badman

The largest geomagnetic storm so far in the solar cycle 24 was produced by a fast coronal mass ejection (CME) originating on 2015 March 15. It was an initially west-oriented CME and expected to only cause a weak geomagnetic disturbance. Why…

A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is an inhomogeneous structure consisting of different features which evolve differently with the propagation of the CME. Simultaneous heliospheric tracking of different observed features of a CME can improve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Wageesh Mishra , Nandita Srivastava