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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) cause disturbances in the environment of the Earth when they arrive at the Earth. However, the prediction of the arrival of CMEs still remains a challenge. We have developed an interplanetary scintillation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Kazumasa Iwai , Daikou Shiota , Munetoshi Tokumaru , Kenichi Fujiki , Mitsue Den , Yûki Kubo

The Sun constantly releases radiation and plasma into the heliosphere. Sporadically, the Sun launches solar eruptions such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). CMEs carry away a huge amount of mass and magnetic flux with them. An…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-02 Khalid A. Alobaid , Jason T. L. Wang

We present the study of two solar eruptive events observed on December 7 2020 and October 28 2021.Both events were associated with full halo CMEs and flares.These events were chosen because they show a strong non-radial direction of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Angelos Valentino , Jasmina Magdalenic

The prediction of the arrival time for fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their associated shocks is highly desirable in space weather studies. In this paper, we use two shock propagation models, i.e. Data Guided Shock Time Of Arrival…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Xinhua Zhao , Ying D. Liu , Bernd Inhester , Xueshang Feng , Thomas Wiegelmann , Lei Lu

The empirical shock arrival (ESA) model was developed based on quadrature data from Helios (in-situ) and P-78 (remote-sensing) to predict the Sun-Earth travel time of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) [Gopalswamy et al. 2005a]. The ESA model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Gopalswamy , P. Mäkelä , H. Xie , S. Yashiro

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are key drivers of space weather activity but most predictions have been limited to the expected arrival time of a CME, rather than the internal properties that affect the severity of an impact. Many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 C. Kay , T. Nieves-Chinchilla

The Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) and its heliospheric imagers (HI) have provided us the possibility to enhance our understanding of the interplanetary propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). HI-based methods are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 T. Amerstorfer , C. Möstl , P. Hess , M. Temmer , M. L. Mays , M. Reiss , P. Lowrance , Ph. -A. Bourdin

Understanding and predicting the structure and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the heliosphere remains one of the most sought-after goals in heliophysics and space weather research. A powerful tool for improving current…

The Fixed-\Phi (F\Phi) and Harmonic Mean (HM) fitting methods are two methods to determine the average direction and velocity of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from time-elongation tracks produced by Heliospheric Imagers (HIs), such as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-18 N. Lugaz , P. Kintner

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are one of the primary drivers of extreme space weather. They are large eruptions of mass and magnetic field from the solar corona and can travel the distance between Sun and Earth in half a day to a few days.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Talwinder Singh , Mehmet S. Yalim , Nikolai V. Pogorelov , Nat Gopalswamy

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

The Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission has laid a foundation for advancing real-time space weather forecasting by enabling the evaluation of heliospheric imager (HI) data for predicting coronal mass ejection (CME)…

The vulnerability of technology on which present society relies demands that a solar event, its time of arrival at Earth, and its degree of geoeffectiveness be promptly forecasted. Motivated by improving predictions of arrival times at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 H. Cremades , F. A. Iglesias , O. C. St. Cyr , H. Xie , M. L. Kaiser , N. Gopalswamy

The Wang-Sheeley-Arge (WSA)-ENLIL+Cone model is used extensively in space weather operations world-wide to model CME propagation. As such, it is important to assess its performance. We present validation results of the WSA-ENLIL+Cone model…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-01-25 A. M. Wold , M. L. Mays , A. Taktakishvili , L. K. Jian , D. Odstrcil , P. MacNeice

In order to advance our understanding of the dynamic interactions between coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the magnetized solar wind, we investigate the impact of magnetic erosion on the well-known aerodynamic drag force acting on CMEs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 Sotiris Stamkos , Spiros Patsourakos , Angelos Vourlidas , Ioannis A. Daglis

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

The prediction of the arrival time and transit speed of CMEs near the Earth is one of the key problems in understanding the solar terrestrial relationship. Although, STEREO observations now provide a multiple view of CMEs in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-17 Wageesh Mishra , Nandita Srivastava

Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most significant drivers of adverse space weather at Earth, but the physics governing their propagation through the heliosphere is not well understood. While stereoscopic imaging of CMEs with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Jason P. Byrne , Shane A. Maloney , R. T. James McAteer , Jose M. Refojo , Peter T. Gallagher

In this study, we present a new method for forecasting arrival times and speeds of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at any location in the inner heliosphere. This new approach enables the adoption of a highly flexible geometrical shape for the…

In this paper, we analyze 91 coronal mass ejection (CME) events studied by Manoharan et al. (2004) and Gopalswamy and Xie (2008). These earth-directed CMEs are large (width $>$160$^\circ$) and cover a wide range of speeds ($\sim$120--2400…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. K. Manoharan , A. Mujiber Rahman