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Shock waves driven by fast and wide coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are highly efficient particle accelerators involved in the production of solar energetic particle (SEP) events. The gradual SEP event measured by STEREO-A and B on October…

We investigate the source eruption, propagation and expansion characteristics, and heliospheric impacts of the 2020 November 29 coronal mass ejection (CME) and associated shock, using remote sensing and in situ observations from multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Chong Chen , Ying D. Liu , Bei Zhu

The important role played by magnetic reconnection in the early acceleration of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) has been widely discussed. However, as CMEs may have expansion speeds comparable to their propagation speeds in the corona, it is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Bin Zhuang , Noé Lugaz , Manuela Temmer , Tingyu Gou , Nada Al-Haddad

Accurately predicting the arrival of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at the Earth based on remote images is of critical significance in the study of space weather. In this paper, we make a statistical study of 21 Earth directed CMEs,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Tong Shi , Yikang Wang , Linfeng Wan , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding , Jie Zhang

The fast coronal mass ejection (CME) from 23 July 2012 raised attention due to its extremely short transit time from Sun to 1 AU of less than 21 h. In-situ data from STEREO-A revealed the arrival of a fast forward shock with a speed of more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Manuela Temmer , Nariaki Nitta

Simulating coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from their origin in active regions (ARs) to their propagation to Earth remains challenging, particularly when aiming to resolve AR scales and employ realistic magnetic field strengths without…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Liping Yang , Huichao Li , Jinhan Guo , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

We study the origin of a CME-related shock within the LASCO C3 field-of-view (FOV). A shock originates, when a CME body velocity on its axis surpasses the total velocity $V_A + V_{SW}$, where $V_A$ is the Alfv\'en velocity, $V_{SW}$ is the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 V. G. Fainshtein , Ya. I. Egorov

We present general considerations regarding the derivation of the radial distances of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from elongation angle measurements such as those provided by SECCHI and SMEI, focusing on measurements in the Heliospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Lugaz , A. Vourlidas , I. I. Roussev

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most dynamic phenomena in our solar system. They abruptly disrupt the continuous outflow of solar wind by expelling huge clouds of magnetized plasma into interplanetary space with velocities enabling to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Manuela Temmer

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

In this paper, we demonstrate that CME-driven shocks can be detected in white light coronagraph images and in which properties such as the density compression ratio and shock direction can be measured. Also, their propagation direction can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Veronica Ontiveros , Angelos Vourlidas

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are challenging objects to detect using automated techniques, due to their high velocity and diffuse, irregular morphology. A necessary step to automating the detection process is to first remove the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-15 C. Alex Young , Peter T. Gallagher

Solar energetic particles acceleration by a shock wave accompanying a coronal mass ejection (CME) is studied. The description of the accelerated particle spectrum evolution is based on the numerical calculation of the diffusive transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-09 A. S. Petukhova , I. S. Petukhov , S. I. Petukhov , L. T. Ksenofontov

The kinematics of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are essential for understanding their initiation mechanisms and predicting their planetary impact. Most acceleration and deceleration occur below 4 R$\odot$, which is crucial for initiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Nitin Vashishtha , Satabdwa Majumdar , Ritesh Patel , Vaibhav Pant , Dipankar Banerjee

Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most significant drivers of adverse space weather at Earth, but the physics governing their propagation through the heliosphere is not well understood. While stereoscopic imaging of CMEs with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Jason P. Byrne , Shane A. Maloney , R. T. James McAteer , Jose M. Refojo , Peter T. Gallagher

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

This study addresses the limitations of single-viewpoint observations of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) by presenting results from a 3D catalog of 360 CMEs during solar cycle 24, fitted using the GCS model. The dataset combines 326…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 Harshita Gandhi , Ritesh Patel , Vaibhav Pant , Satabdwa Majumdar , Sanchita Pal , Dipankar Banerjee , Huw Morgan

Analysis of SOHO/LASCO C3 data reveals a discontinuity, interpreted as a shock wave, in plasma density radial profiles in a restricted region ahead of each of ten selected coronal mass ejections (CME) along their travel directions. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-13 M. Eselevich , V. Eselevich

The expanding magnetic flux in coronal mass ejections (CMEs) often forms a cavity. A spherical model is simultaneously fit to STEREO EUVI and COR1 data of an impulsively accelerated CME on 25 March 2008, which displays a well-defined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , B. Kliem

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…