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The objective of this investigation was to first examine the kinematics of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using EUV and coronagraph images, and then to make a comparison with theoretical models in the hope to identify the driving mechanisms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Chia-Hsien Lin , Peter T. Gallagher , Claire L. Raftery

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are the primary source of strong space weather disturbances at Earth. Their geoeffectiveness is largely determined by their dynamic pressure and internal magnetic fields, for which reliable predictions at Earth…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Camilla Scolini , Luciano Rodriguez , Marilena Mierla , Jens Pomoell , Stefaan Poedts

On 2012 September 30 - October 1 the Earth underwent a two-step geomagnetic storm. We examine the Sun-to-Earth characteristics of the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) responsible for the geomagnetic storm with combined heliospheric imaging and…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Ying D. Liu , Zhongwei Yang , Rui Wang , Janet G. Luhmann , John D. Richardson , Noé Lugaz

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale expulsions of plasma and magnetic flux from the Sun's corona into the heliosphere. In interplanetary space they are referred to as interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs), often characterised by a shock, a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Akanksha Dagore , Giuseppe Prete , Vincenzo Capparelli , Vincenzo Carbone , Fabio Lepreti

Investigating the heliospheric evolution and consequences of Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is critical to understanding the solar-terrestrial relationship. For the first time, Heliospheric Imagers (HIs) onboard STEREO, providing multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-22 Wageesh Mishra

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

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) typically exhibit a three-component structure in white-light (WL) coronagraphs. Utilizing the seamless observations of the inner corona ($\le$ 3 R$_\odot$), we have revealed the early evolution of the cavity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Shuting Li , Li Feng , Beili Ying , Hongqiang Song , Guanglu Shi , Jiahui Shan , Jie Zhao , Weiqun Gan

White-light observations of the solar corona show that there are two characteristic types of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) in terms of speed-height profiles: so-called fast CMEs that attain high speeds low in the corona and slow CMEs that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Liu , X. P. Zhao , S. T. Wu , P. H. Scherrer

We present high resolution 2.5-dimensional MHD simulation results of magnetic breakout-initiated coronal mass ejections (CMEs) originating from a coronal pseudostreamer configuration. The coronal null point in the magnetic topology of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-31 Benjamin J. Lynch , Justin K. Edmondson

The stellar magnetic field completely dominates the environment around late-type stars. It is responsible for driving the coronal high-energy radiation (e.g. EUV/X-rays), the development of stellar winds, and the generation transient events…

The nature of various plausible causal links between sympathetic events is still a controversial issue. In this work, we present multi-wavelength observations of sympathetic eruptions, associated flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Navin Chandra Joshi , Brigitte Schmieder , Tetsuya Magara , Yang Guo , Guillaume Aulanier

Interplanetary scintillation (IPS) is a useful tool for detecting coronal mass ejections (CMEs) throughout interplanetary space. Global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the heliosphere, which are usually used to predict the arrival…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Kazumasa Iwai , Richard A. Fallows , Mario M. Bisi , Daikou Shiota , Bernard V. Jackson , Munetoshi Tokumaru , Ken'ichi Fujiki

A geomagnetic storm is mainly caused by a front-side coronal mass ejection (CME) hitting the Earth and then interacting with the magnetosphere. However, not all front-side CMEs can hit the Earth. Thus, which CMEs hit the Earth and when they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chenglong Shen , Yuming Wang , Zonghao Pan , Bin Miao , Pinzhong Ye , S. Wang

The triggering process for coronal mass ejections (CME) in the solar atmosphere is not fully understood. We use observations from different spacecraft at several wavelengths to detect an instability process for a prominence/filament with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Z. M. Vashalomidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. D. Kukhianidze , G. T. Ramishvili

Context: Using unique quadrature observations with the two STEREO spacecraft, we investigate coronal dimmings at the onset of small-scale eruptions. In CMEs they are believed to indicate the opening up of the coronal magnetic fields at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Davina Innes , Scott McIntosh , Anna Pietarila

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are a major driver of space weather as they propagate through the heliosphere. Many CMEs have associated prominence material entangled in their magnetic structure which contains cooler plasma. This cooler CME…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Chloe Pistelli , Momchil E Molnar , Giuliana de Toma , Joseph Plowman

The May 10, 2024 space weather event stands out as the most powerful storm recorded during the current solar cycle. This study employs a numerical framework utilizing a semi-empirical coronal model, along with HUXt (Heliospheric Upwind…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Smitha V. Thampi , Ankush Bhaskar , Prateek Mayank , Bhargav Vaidya , Indu Venugopal

During its first solar encounter, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) acquired unprecedented up-close imaging of a small Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) propagating in the forming slow solar wind. The CME originated as a cavity imaged in extreme…

We report the formation of a complicated coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2015 August 23 by using the high temporal and high spatial resolution multi-wavelength observations taken by the Solar Dynamic Observatory and the Solar and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Yadan Duan , Yuandeng Shen , Hechao Chen , Hongfei Liang