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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are major drivers of geomagnetic storms, which may cause severe space weather effects. Automating the detection, tracking, and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of CMEs is important for operational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Jiahui Shan , Huapeng Zhang , Lei Lu , Yan Zhang , Li Feng , Yunyi Ge , Jianchao Xue , Shuting Li

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are solar eruptions into interplanetary space of as much as a few billion tons of plasma, with embedded magnetic fields from the Sun's corona. These perturbations play a very important role in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Hernandez-Cervantes , A. Santillan , A. R. Gonzalez-Ponce

In this article, we present the relationship between prominence eruptions (PEs) and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from May 2010 to December 2019 covering most of solar cycle 24. We used data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Pooja Devi , Nat Gopalswamy , Seiji Yashiro , Sachiko Akiyama , Ramesh Chandra , Kostadinka Koleva

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

Observations of the solar corona with the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronograph (LASCO) and Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) instruments on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) provide an unprecedented opportunity to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Prasad Subramanian , K. P. Dere

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are among the most energetic phenomena in our solar system, with significant implications for space weather. Understanding their early dynamics remains challenging due to observational limitations in the low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Shantanu Jain , Tatiana Podladchikova , Karin Dissauer , Astrid Veronig , Amaia Razquin

Context. Observations reveal that shocks can be driven by fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and play essential roles in particle accelerations. A critical ratio, $\delta$, derived from a shock standoff distance normalized by the radius of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Beili Ying , Li Feng , Bernd Inhester , Marilena Mierla , Weiqun Gan , Lei Lu , Shuting Li

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun and are considered the main driver of adverse space weather events. Hence, undrstanding its formation process, particularly the magnetic topology, is critical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Jinhan Guo , Y. W. Ni , B. Schmieder , Y. Guo , C. Xia , P. Devi , R. Chandra , S. Poedts , R. Joshi , Y. H. Zhou , H. T. Li , P. F. Chen

Understanding and predicting the structure and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the heliosphere remains one of the most sought-after goals in heliophysics and space weather research. A powerful tool for improving current…

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are major drivers of extreme space weather conditions, this being a matter of serious concern for our modern technologically-dependent society. Development of numerical approaches that would simulate CME…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Talwinder Singh , Mehmet Sarp Yalim , Nikolai V Pogorelov

In this study, we analyze nine CMEs from the Sun to Earth as observed in both the remote sensing and in situ data sets. To date, this is the largest study of Earth impacting CMEs using the multi-view point remote sensing and in situ data.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-20 Robin C. Colaninno

The severe geomagnetic effects of solar storms or coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are to a large degree determined by their propagation direction with respect to Earth. There is a lack of understanding of the processes that determine their…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are violent ejections of magnetized plasma from the Sun, which can trigger geomagnetic storms, endanger satellite operations and destroy electrical infrastructures on the Earth. After systematically searching…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Hong-peng Lu , Hui Tian , He-chao Chen , Yu Xu , Zhen-yong Hou , Xian-yong Bai , Guang-yu Tan , Zi-hao Yang , Jie Ren

The determination of the speed of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) is usually done by tracking brighter features (such as the CME front and core) in visible light coronagraphic images and by deriving unidimensional profiles of the CME speed as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Beili Ying , Alessandro Bemporad , Silvio Giordano , Paolo Pagano , Li Feng , Lei Lu , Hui Li , Weiqun Gan

It is well known that there is temporal relationship between coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and associated flares. The duration of the acceleration phase is related to the duration of the rise phase of a flare. We investigate CMEs associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-01 U. Bak-Steslicka , S. Kolomanski , T. Mrozek

The near-Sun kinematics of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) determine the severity and arrival time of associated geomagnetic storms. We investigate the relationship between the deprojected speed and kinetic energy of CMEs and magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Sanchita Pal , Dibyendu Nandy , Nandita Srivastava , Nat Gopalswamy , Suman Panda

Context. We study two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed between April 1-2, 2019 by both the inner Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR-I) and the inner heliospheric imager (HI-1) on board STEREO-A. This is the first study of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Carlos Roberto Braga , Angelos Vourlidas

The radial expansion of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is known to occur from remote observations; from the variation of their properties with radial distance; and from local in situ plasma measurements showing a decreasing speed profile…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 N. Lugaz , T. M. Salman , R. M. Winslow , N. Al-Haddad , C. J. Farrugia , B. Zhuang , A. B. Galvin

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are more energetic than any other class of solar phenomena. They arise from the rapid release of up to $10^{33}$ erg of magnetic energy mainly in the form of particle acceleration and bulk plasma motion. Their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Julián D. Alvarado-Gómez , Jeremy J. Drake , Ofer Cohen , Federico Fraschetti , Cecilia Garraffo , Katja Poppenhäger