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The solar corona is frequently disrupted by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), whose core structure is believed to be a flux rope made of helical magnetic field. This has become a "standard" picture although it remains elusive how the flux rope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Arun Kumar Awasthi , Rui Liu , Haimin Wang , Yuming Wang , Chenglong Shen

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the largest type of eruptions on the Sun and the main driver of severe space weather at the Earth. In this study, we implement a force-free spheromak CME description within 3-D magnetohydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-20 Gordon J. Koehn , Ravindra T. Desai , Emma E. Davies , Robert J. Forsyth , Jonathan P. Eastwood , Stefaan Poedts

Impulsive solar energetic particle events are widely believed to be due to the prompt escape into the interplanetary medium of flare-accelerated particles produced by solar eruptive events. According to the standard model for such events,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Masson , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) play a decisive role in driving space weather, especially, the fast ones (e.g., with speeds above $800$~km~s$^{-1}$). Understanding the trigger mechanisms of fast CMEs can help us gaining important information…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Peng Zou , Chaowei Jiang , Fengsi Wei , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

On 2022 March 28 two successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were observed by multiple spacecraft and resulted in a magnetic cloud (MC) at 1 AU. We investigate the propagation and interaction properties of the two CMEs correlated with the…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Chong Chen , Ying D. Liu , Bei Zhu , Huidong Hu , Rui Wang

A fundamental property of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is their radial expansion, which determines the increase in the CME radial size and the decrease in the CME magnetic field strength as the CME propagates. CME radial expansion can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bin Zhuang , Noé Lugaz , Nada Al-Haddad , Réka M. Winslow , Camilla Scolini , Charles J. Farrugia , Antoinette B. Galvin

Stellar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) may play an important role in mass- and angular momentum loss of young Sun-like stars. If occurring frequently, they may also have a strong effect on planetary evolution by increasing atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-21 P. Odert , M. Leitzinger , A. Hanslmeier , H. Lammer

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are more energetic than any other class of solar phenomena. They arise from the rapid release of up to $10^{33}$ erg of magnetic energy mainly in the form of particle acceleration and bulk plasma motion. Their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Julián D. Alvarado-Gómez , Jeremy J. Drake , Ofer Cohen , Federico Fraschetti , Cecilia Garraffo , Katja Poppenhäger

Filament eruptions often lead to coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which can affect critical technological systems in space and on the ground when they interact with the geo-magnetosphere in high speeds. Therefore, it is an important issue to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hongqiang Song , Yao Chen , Jie Zhang , Xin Cheng , Hui Fu , Gang Li

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are energetic storms in the Sun that result in the ejection of large-scale magnetic clouds (MCs) in interplanetary space that contain enhanced magnetic fields with coherently changing field direction. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Sanchita Pal , Dibyendu Nandy , Emilia K J Kilpua

We investigate the deflection and rotation behavior of 49 Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) spanning the period from 2010 to 2020 aiming to understand the potential influence of coronal holes (CHs) on their trajectories. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Suresh Karuppiah , Mateja Dumbović , Karmen Martinić , Manuela Temmer , Stephan G. Heinemann , Bojan Vršnak

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) represent one type of the major eruption from the Sun. Their interplanetary counterparts, the interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs), are the direct manifestations of these structures when they propagate into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 Qiang Hu , Wen He , Lingling Zhao , Edward Lu

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

It is well known that there is temporal relationship between coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and associated flares. The duration of the acceleration phase is related to the duration of the rise phase of a flare. We investigate CMEs associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-01 U. Bak-Steslicka , S. Kolomanski , T. Mrozek

The Sun and other solar-type stars have magnetic fields that permeate their interior and surface, extends through the interplanetary medium, and is the main driver of stellar activity. Stellar magnetic activity affects physical processes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-15 Fabian Menezes , Adriana Valio , Yuri Netto , Alexandre Araújo , Christina Kay , Merav Opher

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) erupt and expand in a magnetically structured solar corona. Various indirect observational pieces of evidence have shown that the magnetic field of CMEs reconnects with surrounding magnetic fields, forming,…

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed near the Sun via LASCO coronographic imaging are the most important solar drivers of geomagnetic storms. ICMEs, their interplanetary, near-Earth counterparts, can be detected in-situ, for example, by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Yurchyshyn , Q. Hu , R. P. Lepping , B. J. Lynch , J. Krall

We report the first results of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of the development of a homologous sequence of three coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and demonstrate their so-called cannibalistic behavior. These CMEs originate from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-08 Piyali Chatterjee , Yuhong Fan