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The study of fast, eruptive events in the low solar corona is one of the science objectives of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) imagers on the recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which take full disk images in ten…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , G. Stenborg

Coronal and interplanetary shock waves produced by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are major drivers of space-weather phenomena, inducing major changes in the heliospheric radiation environment and directly perturbing the near-Earth…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Manon Jarry , Alexis P. Rouillard , Illya Plotnikov , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Alexander Warmuth

Forecasting the in situ properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from remote images is expected to strongly enhance predictions of space weather, and is of general interest for studying the interaction of CMEs with planetary…

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are the most energetic expulsions of magnetized plasma from the Sun that play a crucial role in space weather dynamics. This study investigates the diverse kinematics and thermodynamic evolution of two CMEs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Soumyaranjan Khuntia , Wageesh Mishra , Sudheer K Mishra , Yuming Wang , Jie Zhang , Shaoyu Lyu

We study the coronal mass ejection (CME) with a complex acceleration profile. The event occurred on April 23, 2009. It had an impulsive acceleration phase, an impulsive deceleration phase, and a second impulsive acceleration phase. During…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-19 A. A Reva , A. S. Kirichenko , A. S. Ulyanov , S. V. Kuzin

We report on a numerical investigation of two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) which interact as they propagate in the inner heliosphere. We focus on the effect of the orientation of the CMEs relative to each other by performing four different…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Lugaz , C. J. Farrugia , W. B. Manchester , N. Schwadron

On 15 May 2005, a huge interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) was observed near Earth. It triggered one of the most intense geomagnetic storms of solar cycle 23 (Dst peak = -263 nT). This structure has been associated with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-24 S. Dasso , C. H. Mandrini , B. Schmieder , H. Cremades , C. Cid , Y. Cerrato , E. Saiz , P. Démoulin , A. N. Zhukov , L. Rodriguez , A. Aran , M. Menvielle , S. Poedts

We investigate the initiation and formation of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) via detailed two-viewpoint analysis of low corona observations of a relatively fast CME acquired by the SECCHI instruments aboard the STEREO mission. The event…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Vourlidas , P. Syntelis , K. Tsinganos

A fundamental property of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is their radial expansion, which determines the increase in the CME radial size and the decrease in the CME magnetic field strength as the CME propagates. CME radial expansion can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bin Zhuang , Noé Lugaz , Nada Al-Haddad , Réka M. Winslow , Camilla Scolini , Charles J. Farrugia , Antoinette B. Galvin

The Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) often observes low ionization state coronal mass ejection (CME) plasma at ultraviolet wavelengths. The CME plasmas are often detected in O VI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Jin-Yi Lee , John C. Raymond

Propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun far into interplanetary space is not well understood due to limited observations. In this study we examine the propagation characteristics of two geo-effective CMEs, which occurred…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Xiaowei Zhao , Ying D. Liu , Huidong Hu , Rui Wang

A sample of isolated Earth-impacting ICMEs that occurred in the period January 2008 to August 2014 is analysed in order to study in detail the ICME in situ signatures with respect to the type of filament eruption related to the…

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

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the main drivers of geomagnetic disturbances, but the effects of their interaction with Earth's magnetic field depend on their magnetic configuration and orientation. Fitting and reconstruction techniques…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) stand as intense eruptions of magnetized plasma from the Sun, playing a pivotal role in driving significant changes of the heliospheric environment. Deducing the properties of CMEs from their progenitors in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-15 J. H. Guo , L. Linan , S. Poedts , Y. Guo , B. Schmieder , A. Lani , Y. W. Ni , M. Brchnelova , B. Perri , T. Baratashvili , S. T. Li , P. F. Chen

The diffuse morphology and transient nature of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) make them difficult to identify and track using traditional image processing techniques. We apply multiscale methods to enhance the visibility of the faint CME…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 Jason P. Byrne , Peter T. Gallagher , R. T. James McAteer , C. Alex Young

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are the interplanetary manifestations of solar eruptions. The overtaken solar wind forms a sheath of compressed plasma at the front of ICMEs. Magnetic clouds (MCs) are a subset of ICMEs with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 J. J. Masías-Meza , S. Dasso , P. Démoulin , L. Rodriguez , M. Janvier

Shock waves associated with fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) accelerate solar energetic particles (SEPs) in the long duration, gradual events that pose hazards to crewed spaceflight and near-Earth technological assets, but the source of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-26 David H. Brooks , Stephanie L. Yardley

In this paper, we review the preliminary results on the propagation effects and interplanetary consequences of fast and wide coronal mass ejection (CME) events, occurred during 18--25 June 2015, in the Sun-Earth distance range. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-14 P. K. Manoharan , D. Maia , A. Johri , M. S. Induja