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We demonstrate how the parameters of a Gibson-Low flux-rope-based coronal mass ejection (CME) can be constrained using remote observations. Our Multi Scale Fluid-Kinetic Simulation Suite (MS-FLUKSS) has been used to simulate the propagation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Talwinder Singh , Mehmet Sarp Yalim , Nikolai Pogorelov , Nat Gopalswamy

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are major drivers of heliospheric variability and can produce prolonged disturbances near Earth. Understanding their thermodynamic evolution is crucial for assessing their heat budget and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Soumyaranjan Khuntia , Wageesh Mishra

The evolution of the magnetic field and plasma quantities inside a coronal mass ejection (CME) with distance are known from statistical studies using data from 1 au monitors, planetary missions, Helios, and Ulysses. This does not cover the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Nada Al-Haddad , Noe Lugaz , Stefaan Poedts , Charles J. Farrugia and , Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla

As solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) propagate through the heliosphere, they expend energy in heating protons to compensate for the cooling that occurs due to expansion. CME propagation models usually treat energy dissipation implicitly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Debesh Bhattacharjee , Prasad Subramanian , Saikat majumder , Wageesh Mishra

Understanding the early evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), in particular their initiation, is the key to forecasting solar eruptions and induced disastrous space weather. Although many initiation mechanisms have been proposed, a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Chen Xing , Guillaume Aulanier , Xin Cheng , Chun Xia , Mingde Ding

We report on the characterization of a coronal mass ejection (CME) observed on 22 October 2003 by the LASCO-C2 and C3 coronagraphs over a time interval of 6 hours. This CME clearly appears as an asymmetric flux-rope in self-similar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Philippe Lamy , Yannick Boursier , Jean Loirat , Andrei Zhukov

In order to have a comprehensive view of the propagation and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun to deep interplanetary space beyond 1 au, we carry out a kinematic analysis of 7 CMEs in solar cycle 23. The events are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Xiaowei Zhao , Ying D. Liu , Huidong Hu , Rui Wang

Solar Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale ejections of plasma and magnetic field from the corona, which propagate through interplanetary space. CMEs are the most significant drivers of adverse space weather on Earth, but the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-22 Shane Maloney

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…

The state of the space environment plays a significant role for forecasting of geomagnetic storms produced by disturbances of the solar wind (SW). Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) passing through the heliosphere often have a prolonged (up to…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Vladimir Slemzin , Farid Goryaev , Denis Rodkin

The radial expansion of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is known to occur from remote observations; from the variation of their properties with radial distance; and from local in situ plasma measurements showing a decreasing speed profile…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 N. Lugaz , T. M. Salman , R. M. Winslow , N. Al-Haddad , C. J. Farrugia , B. Zhuang , A. B. Galvin

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most dynamic phenomena in our solar system. They abruptly disrupt the continuous outflow of solar wind by expelling huge clouds of magnetized plasma into interplanetary space with velocities enabling to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Manuela Temmer

Aims. Our goal is to thoroughly analyse the dynamics of single and multiple solar eruptions, as well as a stealth ejecta. The data were obtained through self-consistent numerical simulations performed in a previous study. We also assess the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 Dana-Camelia Talpeanu , Stefaan Poedts , Elke D'Huys , Marilena Mierla , Ian G. Richardson

Loss of equilibrium of magnetic flux ropes is a leading candidate for the origin of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The aim of this paper is to explore to what extent this mechanism can account for the initiation of CMEs in the global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. R. Yeates , D. H. Mackay

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) typically exhibit a three-component structure in white-light (WL) coronagraphs. Utilizing the seamless observations of the inner corona ($\le$ 3 R$_\odot$), we have revealed the early evolution of the cavity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Shuting Li , Li Feng , Beili Ying , Hongqiang Song , Guanglu Shi , Jiahui Shan , Jie Zhao , Weiqun Gan

The polytropic process characterizes the thermodynamics of space plasma particle populations. The polytropic index, ${\gamma}$, is particularly important as it describes the thermodynamic behavior of the system by quantifying the changes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Maher A Dayeh , George Livadiotis

Owing to our dependance on spaceborne technology, an awareness of disturbances in the near-Earth space environment is proving to be increasingly crucial. Earth-directed Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) emanating from the Sun are the primary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-17 Arun Babu

The relative importance of different initiation mechanisms for coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on the Sun is uncertain. One possible mechanism is the loss of equilibrium of coronal magnetic flux ropes formed gradually by large-scale surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. R. Yeates , G. D. R. Attrill , Dibyendu Nandy , D. H. Mackay , P. C. H. Martens , A. A. van Ballegooijen

In this paper, we study the temperature and density properties of multiple structural components of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using differential emission measure (DEM) analysis. The DEM analysis is based on the six-passband EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , S. H. Saar , M. D. Ding

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale ejections of plasma and magnetic field from the solar corona, which propagate through interplanetary space at velocities of $\sim$100--2500~km~s$^{-1}$. Although plane-of-sky coronagraph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-09 Shane A. Maloney , Peter T. Gallagher