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Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) originate from the eruption of complex magnetic structures occurring in our star's atmosphere. Determining the general properties of ICMEs and the physical processes at the heart of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 F. Regnault , A. Strugarek , M. Janvier , F. Auchère , N. Lugaz , N. Al-Haddad

Aims. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are the most fascinating explosion in the solar system; however, their formation is still not fully understood. Methods. Here, we investigate a well-observed CME on 2021 May 07 that showed a typical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 B. T. Wang , X. Cheng , H. Q. Song , M. D. Ding

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 present a review of the different aspects associated with the interaction of successive CMEs in the corona and inner heliosphere, focusing on the initiation of series of CMEs, their interaction in the heliosphere, the particle…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Noé Lugaz , Manuela Temmer , Yuming Wang , Charles J. Farrugia

Context. Some of the most prominent sources for particle acceleration in our Solar System are large eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These accelerated particles can generate radio emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 D. E. Morosan , E. Palmerio , J. Pomoell , R. Vainio , M. Palmroth , E. K. J. Kilpua

Nonlinear cascade of low-frequency Alfvenic fluctuations (AFs) is regarded as one candidate of the energy sources to heat plasma during the non-adiabatic expansion of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). However, AFs inside ICMEs…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Hui Li , Chi Wang , Jiansen He , Lingqian Zhang , John D. Richardson , John W. Belcher , Cui Tu

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are complex magnetized plasma structures in which the magnetic field spirals around a central axis, forming what is known as a flux rope (FR). The central FR axis can be oriented at any angle to the ecliptic.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Karmen Martinić , Eleanna Asvestari , Mateja Dumbović , Tobias Rindlisbacher , Manuela Temmer , Bojan Vršnak

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) originate from closed magnetic field regions on the Sun, which are active regions and quiescent filament regions. The energetic populations such as halo CMEs, CMEs associated with magnetic clouds, geoeffective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Gopalswamy , S. Akiyama , S. Yashiro , P. Makela

Stellar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from host stars are an important factor that affects the habitability of exoplanets. Although their solar counterparts have been well observed for decades, it is still very difficult to find solid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Zihao Yang , Hui Tian , Yingjie Zhu , Yu Xu , Linyi Chen , Zheng Sun

Directly tracking an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) by widely separated spacecrafts is a great challenge. However, such an event could provide us a good opportunity to study the evolution of embedded Alfv\'enic fluctuations…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Hui Li , Chi Wang , John D. Richardson , Cui Tu

We carry out an analysis of the evacuated mass from three coronal dimming regions observed by the {\it Atmospheric Imaging Assembly} (AIA) on board the {\it Solar Dynamics Observatory}. The three events are unambiguously identified with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Fernando M. López , Hebe Cremades , Federico A. Nuevo , Laura A. Balmaceda , Alberto A. Vásquez

The configuration of the interplanetary magnetic field and features of the related ambient solar wind in the ecliptic and meridional plane are different. Therefore, one can expect that the orientation of the flux-rope axis of a coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Karmen Martinic , Mateja Dumbovic , Manula Temmer , Astrid Veronig , Bojan Vršnak

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) evolve significantly as they propagate from the Sun to the Earth, so remote observations of their changes in speed, strength of the magnetic field, density, and overall structure are critical for predicting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Elizabeth A. Jensen , Ward B. Manchester , Jason E. Kooi , Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla , Lan K. Jian , David B. Wexler , Shing Fung , Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are spectacular ejections of material from the Sun as seen in the coronal field of view. Regular observations are possible with both ground-based and space-based coronagraphs. I present our current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nandita Srivastava

Recent Solar Dynamic Observatory observations reveal that coronal mass ejections (CMEs) consist of a multi-temperature structure: a hot flux rope and a cool leading front (LF). The flux rope first appears as a twisted hot channel in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , D. M. Ding , Y. Liu , W. Poomvises

We have reanalyzed SUMER observations of a parcel of coronal gas using new collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE) calculations. These improved CIE fractional abundances were calculated using state-of-the-art electron-ion recombination…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Bryans , E. Landi , D. W. Savin

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are energetic storms in the Sun that result in the ejection of large-scale magnetic clouds (MCs) in interplanetary space that contain enhanced magnetic fields with coherently changing field direction. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Sanchita Pal , Dibyendu Nandy , Emilia K J Kilpua

For the period July 2003 to August 2010, the interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) catalogue maintained by Richardson and Cane lists 106 Earth-directed events, which have been measured in-situ by plasma and field instruments onboard…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 S. Krauss , M. Temmer , A. M. Veronig , O. Baur , H. Lammer

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the largest type of eruptions on the Sun and the main driver of severe space weather at the Earth. In this study, we implement a force-free spheromak CME description within 3-D magnetohydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-20 Gordon J. Koehn , Ravindra T. Desai , Emma E. Davies , Robert J. Forsyth , Jonathan P. Eastwood , Stefaan Poedts

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