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Energetic flares and associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from young magnetically active solar-like stars can play a critical role in setting conditions for atmospheric escape as well aspenetration of accelerated particles into their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Christina Kay , Vladimir S. Airapetian , Theresa Lüftinger , Oleg Kochukhov

We present a study that combines remote-sensing and in-situ observations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) interacting with the nearby heliospheric current sheet (HCS). The sequence of eruptive events under study culminates in the largest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Manuela Temmer , Stephan G. Heinemann , Nina Dresing , Mateja Dumbovic , Eleanna Asvestari

Stellar eruptive events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), can affect planetary habitability by disturbing the stability of their atmospheres. For instance, strong stellar flares and CMEs can trigger atmospheric escape and,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Nuri Park , Evgenya L. Shkolnik , Joe Llama

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large scale eruptions observed close to the Sun. They are travelling through the heliosphere and possibly interacting with the Earth environment creating interruptions or even damaging new technology…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 C. Verbeke , B. Schmieder , P. Démoulin , S. Dasso , B. Grison , E. Samara , C. Scolini , S. Poedts

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

The Sun and other solar-type stars have magnetic fields that permeate their interior and surface, extends through the interplanetary medium, and is the main driver of stellar activity. Stellar magnetic activity affects physical processes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-15 Fabian Menezes , Adriana Valio , Yuri Netto , Alexandre Araújo , Christina Kay , Merav Opher

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were discovered in the early 1970s when space-borne coronagraphs revealed that eruptions of plasma are ejected from the Sun. Today, it is known that the Sun produces eruptive flares, filament eruptions, coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Lucie Green , Tibor Torok , Bojan Vrsnak , Ward Manchester , Astrid Veronig

Globally-propagating shocks in the solar corona have long been studied to quantify their involvement in the acceleration of energetic particles. However, this work has tended to focus on large events associated with strong solar flares and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 David M. Long , Hamish A. S. Reid , Gherardo Valori , Jennifer O'Kane

Context: Metric type II bursts are the most direct diagnostic of shock waves in the solar corona. Aims: There are two main competing views about the origin of coronal shocks: that they originate in either blast waves ignited by the pressure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Nindos , C. E. Alissandrakis , A. Hillaris , P. Preka-Papadema

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale ejections of magnetized plasma from the Sun and are associated with the most extreme space weather events. The geoeffectiveness of a CME is primarily determined by the southward component of its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Devojyoti Kansabanik , Angelos Voulidas

A powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) occurred on 2017 September 10 near the end of the declining phase of the historically weak solar cycle 24. We obtain new insights concerning the geometry and kinematics of CME-driven shocks in relation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Ying D. Liu , Bei Zhu , Xiaowei Zhao

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on the early Sun may have profoundly influenced the planetary atmospheres of early Solar System planets. Flaring young solar analogues serve as excellent proxies for probing the plasma environment of the young…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) play a decisive role in driving space weather, especially, the fast ones (e.g., with speeds above $800$~km~s$^{-1}$). Understanding the trigger mechanisms of fast CMEs can help us gaining important information…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Peng Zou , Chaowei Jiang , Fengsi Wei , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

Solar eruptions generally refer to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares. Both are important sources of space weather. Solar flares cause sudden change in the ionization level in the ionosphere. CMEs cause solar energetic particle (SEP)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Nat Gopalswamy

The radial speed of a coronal mass ejection (CME) determines the shock-driving capability of a CME as indicated by the presence of a type II radio burst. Here we report on the April 18, 2014 CME that was associated with a type II radio…

Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) show a large variety in their kinematic properties. CMEs originating in active regions and accompanied by strong flares are usually faster and accelerated more impulsively than CMEs associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-11 T. Toeroek , B. Kliem

In 2012 March the Sun exhibited extraordinary activities. In particular, the active region NOAA AR 11429 emitted a series of large coronal mass ejections (CMEs) which were imaged by STEREO as it rotated with the Sun from the east to west.…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ying D. Liu , John D. Richardson , Chi Wang , Janet G. Luhmann

We present the multi-point and multi-wavelength observation and analysis on a solar coronal jet and coronal mass ejection (CME) event in this paper. Employing the GCS model, we obtained the real (three-dimensional) heliocentric distance and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-20 Jiajia Liu , Yuming Wang , Chenglong Shen , Kai Liu , Zonghao Pan , S. Wang

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions of plasma and magnetic feld that can produce adverse space weather at Earth and other locations in the Heliosphere. Due to the intrinsic multiscale nature of features in coronagraph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-25 Peter T. Gallagher , C. Alex Young , Jason P. Byrne , R. T. James McAteer

Intense solar energetic particle (SEP) events data, associated with ground level enhancements (GLEs), occurred during 1989 to 2006 have been obtained from the spectrometers on board GOES spacecraft in the energy range 10-100 MeV. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 P. K. Manoharan , G. Agalya