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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most spectacular eruptive phenomena in the solar atmosphere. It is generally accepted that CMEs are results of eruptions of magnetic flux ropes (MFRs). However, a heated debate is on whether MFRs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hongqiang Song , Jie Zhang , Yao Chen , Xin Cheng

The Sun is an active star that can launch large eruptions of magnetised plasma into the heliosphere, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These ejections can drive shocks that accelerate particles to high energies, often resulting in radio…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) originate from closed magnetic field regions on the Sun, which are active regions and quiescent filament regions. The energetic populations such as halo CMEs, CMEs associated with magnetic clouds, geoeffective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Gopalswamy , S. Akiyama , S. Yashiro , P. Makela

Observations from the Kepler mission have revealed frequent superflares on young and active solar-like stars. Superflares result from the large-scale restructuring of stellar magnetic fields, and are associated with the eruption of coronal…

Stealth coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are eruptions from the Sun that have no obvious low coronal signature. These CMEs are characteristically slower events, but can still be geoeffective and affect space weather at Earth. Therefore,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Jennifer O'kane , Lucie Green , David M. Long , Hamish Reid

Flares on the Sun are often associated with ejected plasma: these events are known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These events, although are studied in detail on the Sun, have only a few dozen known examples on other stars, mainly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 K. Vida , B. Seli , T. Szklenár , L. Kriskovics , A. Görgei , Zs. Kővári

Ions and electrons accelerated to high energies during flares and coronal mass ejections at the Sun may escape the solar atmosphere and, guided by the interplanetary magnetic fields, propagate through space to near-Earth locations. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 S. Dalla , K. Herbst , R. Muscheler , M. J. Owens

Gradual solar energetic particle (SEP) events, usually attributed to shock waves driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), show a wide variety of temporal behaviors. For example, TO, the >10 MeV proton onset time with respect to the launch…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Kosuke Kihara , Ayumi Asai , Seiji Yashiro , Nariaki V. Nitta

Predictions of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar energetic particles (SEPs) are a central issue in space weather forecasting. In recent years, interest in space weather predictions has expanded to include impacts at other planets…

We have spent 50 years in heated discussion over which populations of solar energetic particles (SEPs) are accelerated at flares and which by shock waves driven out from the Sun by coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The association of the large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Donald V. Reames

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and coronal jets are two of the best-studied forms of solar eruptions, with the same underlying physics. Previous studies have presented partial eruptions producing coronal jets. We report, for the first time,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Abril Sahade , Judith Karpen , Spiro Antiochos

In this work, we examine the association between solar active regions and 152 solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar energetic particle (SEP) events over solar cycles 23-24 (1997-2017). The CDAW center's GOES data in the energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Raj Kumar , Ramesh Chandra , Bimal Pande , Seema Pande

Large-scale solar eruptions often include ejection of a filament, a solar flare, and expulsion of a coronal mass ejection (CME). Unravelling the magnetic processes that build up the free energy for these eruptions and trigger that energy's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Navdeep K. Panesar

We analyse in this work the propagation and geoeffectiveness of four successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that erupted from the Sun during 21--23 May 2013 and that were detected in interplanetary space by the Wind and/or STEREO-A…

Energetic particle populations are ubiquitous throughout the Universe. In our solar system, the most prominent sources of energetic particles are solar flares or collisionless shocks often driven by huge eruptions of magnetised plasma…

Solar active regions (ARs) are the major sources of two kinds of the most violent solar eruptions, namely flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The largest AR in the past 24 years, NOAA AR 12192, crossed the visible disk from 2014…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-28 Lijuan Liu , Yuming Wang , Jingxiu Wang , Chenglong Shen , Pinzhong Ye , Rui Liu , Jun Chen , Quanhao Zhang , S. Wang

We study solar energetic particle (SEP) events during multiple solar eruptions. The analysed sequences, on 24-26 November 2000, 9-13 April 2001, and 22-25 August 2005, consisted of halo-type coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that originated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Silja Pohjolainen , Firas Al-Hamadani , Eino Valtonen

Context: Late on 2013 August 19, STEREO-A, STEREO-B, MESSENGER, Mars Odyssey, and the L1 spacecraft, spanning a longitudinal range of 222{\deg} in the ecliptic plane, observed an energetic particle flux increase. The widespread solar…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and eruptive flares (EFs) are the most energetic explosions in the solar system. Their underlying origin is the free energy that builds up slowly in the sheared magnetic field of a filament channel. We report…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-03 Joel T. Dahlin , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore

The stellar magnetic field completely dominates the environment around late-type stars. It is responsible for driving the coronal high-energy radiation (e.g. EUV/X-rays), the development of stellar winds, and the generation transient events…