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The physical processes, which drive powerful solar eruptions, play an important role in our understanding of the Sun-Earth connection. In this Special Issue, we firstly discuss how magnetic fields emerge from the solar interior to the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Vasilis Archontis , Loukas Vlahos

Forecasting the geomagnetic effects of solar storms, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), is currently severely limited by our inability to predict the magnetic field configuration in the CME magnetic core and by observational effects of…

The coronal magnetic field is the prime driver behind many as-yet unsolved mysteries: solar eruptions, coronal heating, and the solar wind, to name a few. It is, however, still poorly observed and understood. We highlight key questions…

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are magnetized plasma systems with highly complex magnetic topology and evolution. Methods developed to assess their magnetic configuration have primarily focused on reconstructing three-dimensional…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Nada Al-Haddad , Mitchell Berger

Owing to our dependance on spaceborne technology, an awareness of disturbances in the near-Earth space environment is proving to be increasingly crucial. Earth-directed Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) emanating from the Sun are the primary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-17 Arun Babu

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

Motivated by the need to improve the ability to forecast whether a certain coronal mass ejection (CME) is to impact Earth, and by the insufficiency of statistical studies that analyze the whole erupting system with the focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 M. V. Sieyra , M. Cécere , H. Cremades , F. A. Iglesias , A. Sahade , M. Mierla , G. Stenborg , A. Costa , M. West , E. D'Huys

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

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

Solar Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are sometimes deflected during their propagation. This deflection may be the consequence of interaction between a CME and a coronal hole or the solar wind. We analyze 44 halo-CMEs whose deflection angle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Jingjing Wang , J. Todd Hoeksema , Siqing Liu

Estimating the magnetic field strength in the solar corona is crucial for understanding different physical processes happening over diverse spatio-temporal scales. However, the high temperatures and low density of the solar corona make this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-07 Upasna Baweja , Vaibhav Pant , Iñigo Arregui

This publication provides an overview of magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere with the focus lying on the corona. The solar magnetic field couples the solar interior with the visible surface of the Sun and with its atmosphere. It is also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Thomas Wiegelmann , Julia K. Thalmann , Sami K. Solanki

The magnetic field plays a pivotal role in many fields of Astrophysics. This is especially true for the physics of the solar atmosphere. Measuring the magnetic field in the upper solar atmosphere is crucial to understand the nature of the…

We identify coronal mass ejections (CMEs) associated with magnetic clouds (MCs) observed near Earth by the Wind spacecraft from 2008 to mid-2012, a time period when the two STEREO spacecraft were well positioned to study Earth-directed…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) have become one of the key indicators of solar activity, especially in terms of the consequences of the transient events in the heliosphere. Although CMEs are closely related to the sunspot number (SSN), they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Nat Gopalswamy

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are immense eruptions of plasma and magnetic fields that are propelled outward from the Sun, sometimes with velocities greater than 2000 km/s. They are responsible for some of the most severe space weather at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Jon Linker , Tibor Torok , Cooper Downs , Ronald Caplan , Viacheslav Titov , Andres Reyes , Roberto Lionello , Pete Riley

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

The magnetic field in the Sun's corona stores energy that can be released to heat the coronal plasma and drive solar eruptions. Measurements of the global coronal magnetic field have been limited to a few snapshots. We present observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Zihao Yang , Hui Tian , Steven Tomczyk , Xianyu Liu , Sarah Gibson , Richard J. Morton , Cooper Downs