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In recent years, space weather research has focused on developing modelling techniques to predict the arrival time and properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at the Earth. The aim of this paper is to propose a new modelling technique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-22 P. Pagano , D. H. Mackay , A. R. Yeates

Aiming to capture the formation and eruption of flux ropes (FRs) in the source active regions (ARs), we simulate the coronal magnetic field evolution of the AR 11429 employing the time-dependent magneto-friction model (TMF). The initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 P. Vemareddy

Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) originate from the eruption of complex magnetic structures occurring in our star's atmosphere. Determining the general properties of ICMEs and the physical processes at the heart of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 F. Regnault , A. Strugarek , M. Janvier , F. Auchère , N. Lugaz , N. Al-Haddad

Current theoretical ideas on the internal structure of CMEs suggest that a flux rope is central to the CME structure, which has considerable observational support both from remote-sensing and in-situ observations. The flux-rope nature is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nat Gopalswamy

This study quantifies how uncertainty in physically meaningful coronal mass ejection (CME) and solar-wind inputs propagates into forecast-relevant diagnostics from eruption to 1 AU. We use a semi-analytic erupting flux rope (EFR) model to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 S. Stamkos , S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , E. Paouris

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun and are considered the main driver of adverse space weather events. Hence, undrstanding its formation process, particularly the magnetic topology, is critical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Jinhan Guo , Y. W. Ni , B. Schmieder , Y. Guo , C. Xia , P. Devi , R. Chandra , S. Poedts , R. Joshi , Y. H. Zhou , H. T. Li , P. F. Chen

The formation of the MFRs in the pre-flare stage, and how this leads to coronal rain in a post-eruption magnetic loop is not fully understood. We explore the formation, and eruption of MFRs, followed by the appearance of coronal rain in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Samrat Sen , Avijeet Prasad , Valeriia Liakh , Rony Keppens

For a better understanding of magnetic field in the solar corona and dynamic activities such as flares and coronal mass ejections, it is crucial to measure the time-evolving coronal field and accurately estimate the magnetic energy.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Shin Toriumi , Shinsuke Takasao , Mark C. M. Cheung , Chaowei Jiang , Yang Guo , Keiji Hayashi , Satoshi Inoue

A magnetic flux rope structure is believed to exist in most coronal mass ejections (CMEs). However, it has been long debated whether the flux rope exists before eruption or is formed during eruption via magnetic reconnection. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Y. Ouyang , K. Yang , P. F. Chen

The most probable initial magnetic configuration of a CME is a flux rope consisting of twisted field lines which fill the whole volume of a dark coronal cavity. The flux ropes can be in stable equilibrium in the coronal magnetic field for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Boris Filippov , Olesya Martsenyuk , Abhishek K. Srivastava , Wahab Uddin

Predicting the magnetic field within an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) well before its arrival at Earth is one of the most important issues in space weather research. In this article, we compare the intrinsic flux rope type,…

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are fundamental magnetic structures in solar eruptions, whose formation is generally attributed to (1) the emergence of subsurface flux tubes or (2) flux cancellation driven by photospheric horizontal flows and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Can Wang , Takaaki Yokoyama , Feng Chen , Chen Xing , Mingde Ding , Zekun Lu

The Flux Rope in 3D (FRi3D, Isavnin, 2016), a coronal mass ejection (CME) model with global three-dimensional (3D) geometry, has been implemented in the space weather forecasting tool EUHFORIA (Pomoell and Poedts, 2018). By incorporating…

The coronal magnetic topology significantly affects the outcome of magnetic flux rope (MFR) eruptions. The recently reported nested double null magnetic system remains unclear as to how it affects MFR eruptions. Using observations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Surui Yao , Yuandeng Shen , Chengrui Zhou , Dongxu Liu , Xinping Zhou

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

During its first solar encounter, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) acquired unprecedented up-close imaging of a small Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) propagating in the forming slow solar wind. The CME originated as a cavity imaged in extreme…

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most powerful explosions in the Sun. They are major sources of potentially destructive space weather conditions. However, the possible causes of their initiation remain controversial.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 X. L. Yan , C. W. Jiang , Z. K. Xue , J. C. Wang , E. R. Priest , L. H. Yang , D. F. Kong , W. D. Cao , H. S. Ji

Solar eruptive activities could occur in weak magnetic field environments and over large spatial scales, especially relevant to eruptions involving intermediate or quiescent solar filaments. To handle the large scales, we implement and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Yang Guo , Jinhan Guo , Yiwei Ni , M. D. Ding , P. F. Chen , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens , Kai E. Yang

In this paper, we address the formation of a magnetic flux rope (MFR) that erupted on 2012 July 12 and caused a strong geomagnetic storm event on July 15. Through analyzing the long-term evolution of the associated active region observed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , J. Zhang , X. D. Sun , Y. Guo , Y. M. Wang , B. Kliem , Y. Y. Deng

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and coronal jets are two types of common solar eruptive phenomena, which often independently happen at different spatial scales. In this work, we present a stereoscopic observation of a large-scale CME flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Hechao Chen , Jiayan Yang , Junchao Hong , Haidong Li , Yadan Duan