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In our own solar system, the necessity of understanding space weather is readily evident. Fortunately for Earth, our nearest stellar neighbor is relatively quiet, exhibiting activity levels several orders of magnitude lower than young,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-25 Alicia Aarnio , Keivan Stassun , Sean Matt

Spotless days (SLDs) as well as CMEs in the decay phase of the solar cycle are believed to be a good predictor of the forthcoming cycle. A sequential increase in SLDs is observed since cycle 21, and cycle 24 has the highest number of SLDs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Dipali Burud , Rajmal Jain , Arun K. Awasthi , N. Gopalswamy

Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) are an important component of Space Weather, including radiation hazard to humans and electronic equipment, and the ionisation of the Earth's atmosphere. We review the key observations of SEPs, our current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-23 Karl-Ludwig Klein , Silvia Dalla

We study the solar sources of an intense geomagnetic storm of solar cycle 23 that occurred on 20 November 2003, based on ground- and space-based multiwavelength observations. The coronal mass ejections (CMEs) responsible for the above…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pankaj Kumar , P. K. Manoharan , Wahab Uddin

The injection, propagation and arrival of solar energetic particles (SEPs) during eruptive solar events is an important and current research topic of heliospheric physics. During the largest solar events, particles may have energies up to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 M. Battarbee , J. Guo , S. Dalla , R. Wimmer-Schweingruber , B. Swalwell , D. J. Lawrence

We report on the solar and interplanetary (IP) causes of the third largest geomagnetic storm (2018 August 26) in solar cycle 24. The underlying coronal mass ejection (CME) originating from a quiescent filament region becomes a 440 km/s…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 N. Gopalswamy , S. Yashiro , S. Akiyama , H. Xie , P. Mäkelä , M. -C. Fok , C. P. Ferradas

Solar activity and solar wind parameters decreased significantly in solar cycles (SCs) 23-24. In this paper, we analyze solar wind measurements at the rising phase of SC 25 and compare them with similar data from the previous cycles. For…

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

We reconstruct the morphology and kinematics of a series of small transients that erupt from the Sun on 2021 April 24 using observations primarily from Parker Solar Probe (PSP). These sequential small coronal mass ejections (CMEs) may be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Brian E. Wood , Phillip Hess , Yu Chen , Qiang Hu

Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) are prominent drivers of space weather disturbances and mainly lead to intense or extreme geomagnetic storms. The reported studies suggested that the planar ICME sheath and planar magnetic…

The ISWAT clusters H1+H2 have a focus on interplanetary space and its characteristics, especially on the large-scale co-rotating and transient structures impacting Earth. SIRs, generated by the interaction between high-speed solar wind…

We present a statistical investigation of the radial evolution of 28 interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), measured in situ by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft from 2018 October to 2022 August. First, by analyzing the radial…

Using multi-viewpoint observations from STEREO and SOHO during three solar cycles from 23 to 25, we study the magnetic flux rope (MFR) structures of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) near the Sun and magnetic clouds (MCs) at 1au. The study aims…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Hong Xie , Nat Gopalswamy , Sachiko Akiyama , Pertti Makela , Seiji Yashiro

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are highly dynamic events originating in the solar atmosphere, that show a wide range of kinematic properties and are the major drivers of the space weather. The angular width of the CMEs is a crucial parameter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 V. Pant , R. Majumdar , R. Patel , A. Chauhan , D. Banerjee , N. Gopalswamy

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) with angular width $> 30^{\circ}$ have been observed to occur at a higher rate during solar cycle 24 compared to cycle 23, per sunspot number. This result is supported by data from three independent databases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Gordon Petrie

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

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), as they can inject a large amounts of mass and magnetic flux into the interplanetary space, are the primary source of space weather phenomena on the Earth. The present review first briefly introduces the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-28 Wageesh Mishra , Luca Teriaca

Ions and electrons accelerated to high energies during flares and coronal mass ejections at the Sun may escape the solar atmosphere and, guided by the interplanetary magnetic fields, propagate through space to near-Earth locations. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 S. Dalla , K. Herbst , R. Muscheler , M. J. Owens

We report on the first comprehensive study of the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) associated with $\sim$25 MeV solar energetic proton (SEP) events in 1980-2013 observed in the low/inner corona by the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) Mk3 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 I. G. Richardson , O. C. St Cyr , J. T. Burkepile , H. Xie , B. J. Thompson

Aims. The space radiation environment conditions and the maximum expected coronal mass ejection (CME) speed are being assessed through the investigation of scaling laws between the peak proton flux and fluence of Solar Energetic Particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Athanasios Papaioannou , Konstantin Herbst , Tobias Ramm , David Lario , Astrid M. Veronig