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We performed magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a formation process of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), focusing on interaction (reconnection) between an ejecting flux rope and its ambient field. We examined three cases with different ambient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Daikou Shiota , Kanya Kusano , Takahiro Miyoshi , Kazunari Shibata

We analyze the formation mechanism of three homologous broad coronal mass ejections (CMEs) resulting from a series of solar blowout-eruption flares with successively increasing intensities (M2.0, M2.6, and X1.0). The flares originated from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Suraj Sahu , Bhuwan Joshi , Alphonse C. Sterling , Prabir K. Mitra , Ronald L. Moore

Multi-instrument observations of two filament eruptions on 24 February and 11 May 2011 suggest the following updated scenario for eruptive flare, CME and shock wave evolution. An initial destabilization of a filament results in stretching…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-05 V. V. Grechnev , A. M. Uralov , I. V. Kuzmenko , A. A. Kochanov , I. M. Chertok , S. S. Kalashnikov

A close association between eruptive prominences and CMEs, both slow and fast CMEs, was reported in many studies. Sometimes it is possible to follow the material motion starting from the prominence (filament) activation to the CME in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Boris Filippov , Serge Koutchmy

Solar Energetic Particles (SEP) are an integral part of the physical processes related with Space Weather. We present a review for the acceleration mechanisms related to the explosive phenomena (flares and/or CMEs) inside the solar corona.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Loukas Vlahos , Anastasios Anastasiadis , Athanasios Papaioannou , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Heinz Isliker

The magnetic breakout model explains a variety of solar eruptions, ranging from small-scale jets to large-scale coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Most of our previous studies are focused on jets and CMEs in single null-point topologies. Here,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Pankaj Kumar , Judith T. Karpen , Peter F. Wyper , David Lario , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore

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

Context. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun that are often accompanied by solar radio bursts produced by accelerated electrons. Aims. A powerful source for accelerating electron beams are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. E. Morosan , E. Palmerio , J. E. Räsänen , E. K. J. Kilpua , J. Magdalenić , B. J. Lynch , A. Kumari , J. Pomoell , M. Palmroth

A highly important aspect of solar activity is the coupling between eruptions and the surrounding coronal magnetic-field topology, which determines the trajectory and morphology of the event and can even lead to sympathetic eruptions from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 P. F. Wyper , S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore , B. J. Lynch , J. T. Karpen , P. Kumar

We present evidence that a magnetic flux rope was formed before a coronal mass ejection (CME) and its associated long-duration flare during a pair of preceding confined eruptions and associated impulsive flares in a compound event in NOAA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Bernhard Kliem , Jeongwoo Lee , Rui Liu , Stephen M. White , Chang Liu , Satoshi Masuda

Using the multi-wavelength images and the photospheric magnetograms from the \emph{Solar Dynamics Observatory}, we study the flare which was associated by the only one coronal mass ejection (CME) in active region (AR) 12192. The eruption of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-06 Xiaohong Li , Shuhong Yang , Huadong Chen , Ting Li , Jun Zhang

We follow two small, magnetically isolated CME-producing solar active regions (ARs) from the time of their emergence until several days later, when their core regions erupt to produce the CMEs. In both cases, magnetograms show: (a)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Navdeep K. Panesar

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are tightly related to filament eruptions and usually are their continuation in the upper solar corona. It is common practice to divide all observed CMEs into fast and slow ones. Fast CMEs usually follow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 B. Filippov

The physical processes or trigger mechanisms that lead to the eruption of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), the largest eruptive phenomenon in the heliosphere, are still undetermined. Low-altitude magnetic reconnection associated with flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 S. L. Yardley , L. M. Green , L. Van Driel-Gesztelyi , D. R. Williams , D. H. Mackay

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

Time-dependent resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations are carried out to study a flux rope eruption caused by magnetic reconnection with implication in coexistent flare-CME (coronal mass ejection) events. An early result obtained in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Z. Zhang , J. X. Wang , Y. Q. Hu

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…

A three-dimensional numerical experiment of the launching of a hot and fast coronal jet followed by several violent eruptions is analyzed in detail. These events are initiated through the emergence of a magnetic flux rope from the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fernando Moreno-Insertis , Klaus Galsgaard

We carry out a three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to model the initiation of the coronal mass ejection (CME) on 13 December 2006 in the emerging {\delta}-sunspot active region NOAA 10930. The setup of the simulation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Yuhong Fan

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