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Solar flares (SFs) are sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface which is associated with a large energy release. Flares with burst of Xray emission are normally followed by a mass ejection of electrons and ions from the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-03 Kamsali Nagaraja , Praveen Kumar Basuvaraj , S. C. Chakravarty

The LASCO coronagraphs, in continuous operation since 1995, have observed the evolution of the solar corona and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) over a full solar cycle with high quality images and regular cadence. This is the first time that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Angelos Vourlidas , Russ A. Howard , Ed Esfandiari , Spiros Patsourakos , Seiji Yashiro , Gregorz Michalek

We report on a remarkable finding that the halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in cycle 24 are more abundant than in cycle 23, although the sunspot number in cycle 24 has dropped by about 40%. We also find that the distribution of halo-CME…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 N. Gopalswamy , H. Xie , S. Akiyama , P. Mäkelä , S. Yashiro , G. Michalek

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are tightly related to filament eruptions and usually are their continuation in the upper solar corona. It is common practice to divide all observed CMEs into fast and slow ones. Fast CMEs usually follow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 B. Filippov

Observations of the solar corona with the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronograph (LASCO) and Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) instruments on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) provide an unprecedented opportunity to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Prasad Subramanian , K. P. Dere

Solar eruptions generally refer to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares. Both are important sources of space weather. Solar flares cause sudden change in the ionization level in the ionosphere. CMEs cause solar energetic particle (SEP)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Nat Gopalswamy

Solar eruptions, known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), are frequently observed on our Sun. Recent Kepler observations of superflares on G-type stars have implied that so called super-CMEs, possessing kinetic energies 10 times of the most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Vladimir S. Airapetian , Alex Glocer , William Danchi

There is a growing interest in searching for coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in other stellar systems because they are thought to be one of the important factors shaping planetary atmospheres. We investigated the possible spectral signatures…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Yu Xu , Hui Tian , Julián D. Alvarado-Gómez , Jeremy J. Drake , Gustavo Guerrero

Low frequency dynamic spectra of radio bursts from nearby stars offer the best chance to directly detect the stellar signature of transient mass loss on low mass stars. Crosley et al. (2016) proposes a multi-wavelength methodology to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. K. Crosley , R. A. Osten , C. Norman

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale ejections of magnetized plasma from the Sun and are associated with the most extreme space weather events. The geoeffectiveness of a CME is primarily determined by the southward component of its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Devojyoti Kansabanik , Angelos Voulidas

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), as they can inject a large amounts of mass and magnetic flux into the interplanetary space, are the primary source of space weather phenomena on the Earth. The present review first briefly introduces the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-28 Wageesh Mishra , Luca Teriaca

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 present here an overview of an important solar phenomenon with major implication for space weather and planetary life. The coronal mass ejections (CMEs) come from the Sun and expand in the heliosphere, becoming interplanetary coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-13 Cristiana Dumitrache , Nedelia A. Popescu

Our Sun is an active star expelling dynamic phenomena known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The magnetic field configuration on the Sun and related solar wind structures affect the propagation behavior of CMEs, dominate its transit time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Manuela Temmer

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large clouds of magnetized plasma ejected from the Sun, and are often associated with acceleration of electrons that can result in radio emission via various mechanisms. However, the underlying mechanism…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Lei Lu , Li Feng , Weiqun Gan

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions of plasma and magnetic feld that can produce adverse space weather at Earth and other locations in the Heliosphere. Due to the intrinsic multiscale nature of features in coronagraph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-25 Peter T. Gallagher , C. Alex Young , Jason P. Byrne , R. T. James McAteer

Of all the activity observed on the Sun, two of the most energetic events are flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Usually, solar active regions that produce large flares will also produce a CME, but this is not always true (Yashiro et…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-25 Monica G. Bobra , Stathis Ilonidis

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) contributes to the perturbation of solar wind in the heliosphere. Thus, depending on the different phases of the solar cycle and the rate of CME occurrence, contribution of CMEs to solar wind parameters near…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Wageesh Mishra , Nandita Srivastava , Zavkiddin Mirtoshev , Yuming Wang

We investigated some properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), such as speed, acceleration, polar angle, angular width, and mass, using data acquired by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) onboard the Solar and Heliospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 A. Compagnino , P. Romano , F. Zuccarello

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are a prominent contributor to solar system space weather and might have impacted the Sun's early angular momentum evolution. A signal diagnostic of CMEs on the Sun is coronal dimming: a drop in coronal…