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Coronal dimmings associated with coronal mass ejections (CME) from the Sun have gained much attention since the late 1990s when they were first observed in high-cadence imagery of the SOHO/EIT and Yohkoh/SXT instruments. They appear as…

We describe a new modeling approach to develop a more quantitative understanding of the charge state distributions of the ions of various elements detected in situ during halo Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) events by the Advanced Composition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Cara E. Rakowski , J. Martin Laming , Susan T. Lepri

This work deals with the study of an erupting prominence embedded in the core of a CME and focuses on the derivation of the prominence plasma filling factor. We explore two methods to measure the prominence plasma filling factor that are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 R. Susino , A. Bemporad , S. Jejčič , P. Heinzel

Magnetic fields are the primary driver of the plasma thermodynamics in the upper solar atmosphere, especially in the corona. However, magnetic field measurements in the solar corona are sporadic, thereby limiting us from the complete…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Raveena Khan , Sarah E. Gibson , Roberto Casini , K. Nagaraju

This study entails the fourth part of a global flare energetics project, in which the mass $m_{\mathrm{cme}}$, kinetic energy $E_{\mathrm{kin}}$, and the gravitational potential energy $E_{\mathrm{grav}}$ of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Markus J. Aschwanden

The availability of high quality synoptic observations of the EUV and visible corona during the SOHO mission has advanced our understanding of the low corona manifestations of CMEs. The EUV imager/white light coronagraph connection has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Eva Robbrecht , Spiros Patsourakos , Angelos Vourlidas

Solar coronal dimmings have been observed extensively in the past two decades and are believed to have close association with coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Recent study found that coronal dimming is the only signature that could…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are often accompanied by coronal dimming evident in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft X-ray observations. The locations of dimming are sometimes considered to map footpoints of the erupting flux rope. As the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 J. X. Cheng , J. Qiu

Numerical models of the solar wind and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) utilize photospheric magnetic field observations to prescribe the inner boundary conditions for the plasma solutions. These magnetic field data are available to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Nishtha Sachdeva , Zhenguang Huang , Gabor Toth , Hongfan Chen , Ward B. Manchester , Bart van der Holst

We describe the influence of electron-impact multiple ionization (EIMI) on the ionization balance of collisionally ionized plasmas. We are unaware of any previous ionization balance calculations that have included EIMI, which is usually…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael Hahn , Daniel Wolf Savin

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are a prominent contributor to solar system space weather and might have impacted the Sun's early angular momentum evolution. A signal diagnostic of CMEs on the Sun is coronal dimming: a drop in coronal…

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

A collisional-radiative non-equilibrium impurity treatment for JOREK 3D nonlinear magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations has been developed. The impurities are represented by super-particles flowing along the fluid velocity field lines,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 D. Hu , G. T. A. Huijsmans , E. Nardon , M. Hoelzl , M. Lehnen , D. Bonfiglio , JOREK Team

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large eruptions from the Sun that propagate through the heliosphere after launch. Observational studies of these transient phenomena are usually based on 2D images of the Sun, corona, and heliosphere…

Our understanding of coronal phenomena, such as coronal plasma thermodynamics, faces a major handicap caused by missing coronal magnetic field measurements. Several lines in the UV wavelength range present suitable sensitivity to determine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-16 N. -E. Raouafi , S. K. Solanki , T. Wiegelmann

Shock heating and particle acceleration processes are some of the most fundamental physical phenomena of plasma physics with countless applications in laboratory physics, space physics, and astrophysics. This study is motivated by previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. E. Korreck , T. H. Zurbuchen , S. T. Lepri , J. M . Raines

The spectra of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the low corona play a crucial role in understanding their origins and physical mechanism, and enhancing space weather forecasting. However, capturing these spectra faces significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Lami Chan , Xianyong Bai , Hui Tian , Yufei Feng , Yu Xu , Tibor Török , Yuhang Gao , Tanmoy Samanta , Zheng Sun

Current sheets are important signatures of magnetic reconnection in the eruption of confined solar magnetic structures. Models of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) involve formation of a current sheet connecting the ejected flux rope with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Ciaravella , D. F. Webb , S. Giordano , J. C. Raymond

Studying coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in coronagraph data can be challenging due to their diffuse structure and transient nature, compounded by the variations in their dynamics, morphology, and frequency of occurrence. The large amounts of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jason P. Byrne

An approximate method for solving the rate equations for the hydrogen populations was extended and implemented in the three-dimensional radiation (magneto-)hydrodynamics code CO5BOLD. The method is based on a model atom with six energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jorrit Leenaarts , Sven Wedemeyer-Boehm