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Stellar eruptive events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), can affect planetary habitability by disturbing the stability of their atmospheres. For instance, strong stellar flares and CMEs can trigger atmospheric escape and,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Nuri Park , Evgenya L. Shkolnik , Joe Llama

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) may have major importance for planetary and stellar evolution. Stellar CME parameters, such as mass and velocity, have yet not been determined statistically. So far only a handful of stellar CMEs has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 M. Leitzinger , P. Odert , R. Greimel , K. Vida , L. Kriskovics , E. W. Guenther , H. Korhonen , F. Koller , A. Hanslmeier , Zs. Kővári , H. Lammer

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are powered by magnetic energy stored in electric currents in coronal magnetic fields, with the pre-CME field in balance between outward magnetic pressure of the proto-ejecta and inward magnetic tension from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 J. Suzuki , B. T. Welsch , Y. Li

The Sun and other solar-type stars have magnetic fields that permeate their interior and surface, extends through the interplanetary medium, and is the main driver of stellar activity. Stellar magnetic activity affects physical processes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-15 Fabian Menezes , Adriana Valio , Yuri Netto , Alexandre Araújo , Christina Kay , Merav Opher

Solar filament eruptions play a crucial role in triggering coronal mass ejections (CMEs). More than 80 % of eruptions lead to a CME. This correlation has been studied extensively during the past solar cycles and the last long solar minimum.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Schmieder , P. Demoulin , G. Aulanier

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are closely related to eruptive filaments and usually are the continuation of the same eruptive process into the upper corona. There are failed filament eruptions when a filament decelerates and stops at some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Boris Filippov

Recent discoveries have revealed exoplanets orbiting young Sun-like stars, offering a window into the early solar system. These young stars frequently produce extreme magnetic explosions known as superflares, roughly once a day, potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Kosuke Namekata

The coronal magnetic configuration of an active region typically evolves quietly during few days before becoming suddenly eruptive and launching a coronal mass ejection (CME). The precise origin of the eruption is still debated. Among…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. Demoulin , G. Aulanier

To investigate the factors that control the success and/or failure of solar eruptions, we study the magnetic field and 3-Dimensional (3D) configuration of 16 filament eruptions during 2010 July - 2013 February. All these events, i.e.,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Zhenjun Zhou , Xin Cheng , Jie Zhang , Yuming Wang , Dong Wang , Lijuan Liu , Bin Zhuang , Jun Cui

One of hot topics in the solar physics are the so-called 'stealth' coronal mass ejections (CME), which are not associated with any appreciable energy release events in the lower corona, such as the solar flares. It is often assumed recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Yurii V. Dumin , Boris V. Somov

Solar filaments are magnetic structures often observed in the solar atmosphere and consist of plasma that is cooler and denser than their surroundings. They are visible for days -- and even weeks -- which suggests that they are often in…

The ideal magnetohydrodynamic torus instability can drive the eruption of coronal mass ejections. The critical threshold of magnetic field strength decay for the onset of the torus instability occurs at different heights in different solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Alexander W. James , Lucie M. Green , Graham Barnes , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , David R. Williams

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

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are eruptive events that cause a solar-type star to shed mass and magnetic flux. CMEs tend to occur together with flares, radio storms, and bursts of energetic particles. On the Sun, CME-related mass loss is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Steven R. Cranmer

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

In order to improve our understanding on the pre-requisites of eruptive solar flares, we study and compare different measures that characterize the eruptive potential of solar active regions - the critical height for torus instability as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Manu Gupta , J. K. Thalmann , A. M. Veronig

Two major processes have been proposed to convert the coronal magnetic energy into the kinetic energy of a coronal mass ejection (CME): resistive magnetic reconnection and ideal macroscopic magnetohydrodynamic instability of magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Q. Song , Y. Chen , D. D. Ye , G. Q. Han , G. H. Du , G. Li , J. Zhang , Q. Hu

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) on stars other than the Sun have proven very difficult to detect. One promising pathway lies in the detection of type II radio bursts. Their appearance and distinctive properties are associated with the…