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The prediction of the arrival time and transit speed of CMEs near the Earth is one of the key problems in understanding the solar terrestrial relationship. Although, STEREO observations now provide a multiple view of CMEs in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-17 Wageesh Mishra , Nandita Srivastava

Though coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are magnetized fully-ionized gases, a recent observational study of a CME collision event in 2008 November has suggested that their behavior in the heliosphere is like elastic balls, and their collision…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Fang Shen , Chenglong Shen , Yuming Wang , Xueshang Feng , Changqing Xiang

Understanding and predicting the structure and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the heliosphere remains one of the most sought-after goals in heliophysics and space weather research. A powerful tool for improving current…

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 report on a numerical investigation of two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) which interact as they propagate in the inner heliosphere. We focus on the effect of the orientation of the CMEs relative to each other by performing four different…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Lugaz , C. J. Farrugia , W. B. Manchester , N. Schwadron

The arrival of a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at the Earth resulted in a great geomagnetic storm on 10 May 2024, the strongest storm in the last two decades. We investigate the kinematic and thermal evolution of the successive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Soumyaranjan Khuntia , Wageesh Mishra , Anjali Agarwal

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

Propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun far into interplanetary space is not well understood due to limited observations. In this study we examine the propagation characteristics of two geo-effective CMEs, which occurred…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Xiaowei Zhao , Ying D. Liu , Huidong Hu , Rui Wang

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are subject to changes in their direction of propagation, tilt, and other properties. This is because CMEs interact with the ambient solar wind and other large-scale magnetic field structures. In this work, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-09 Sandeep Kumar , Dinesha V. Hegde , Nandita Srivastava , Nikolai V. Pogorelov , Nat Gopalswamy , Seiji Yashiro

The diffuse morphology and transient nature of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) make them difficult to identify and track using traditional image processing techniques. We apply multiscale methods to enhance the visibility of the faint CME…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 Jason P. Byrne , Peter T. Gallagher , R. T. James McAteer , C. Alex Young

A method for the full three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of the trajectories of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) data is presented. Four CMEs that were simultaneously observed by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-14 Shane A. Maloney , Peter T. Gallagher , R. T. James McAteer

In 2010 May 23-24, SDO observed the launch of two successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which were subsequently tracked by the SECCHI suite onboard STEREO. Using the COR2 coronagraphs and the heliospheric imagers (HIs), the initial…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Lugaz , C. J. Farrugia , J. A. Davies , C. Möstl , C. J. Davis , I. I. Roussev , M. Temmer

We analyse in this work the propagation and geoeffectiveness of four successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that erupted from the Sun during 21--23 May 2013 and that were detected in interplanetary space by the Wind and/or STEREO-A…

The efficacy of coronal mass ejection (CME) observations as a key input to space weather forecasting is explored by comparing on and off Sun-Earth line observations from the ESA/NASA SOHO and NASA STEREO spacecraft. A comparison is made of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Richard A. Harrison , Jackie A. Davies , David Barnes , Christian Möstl

The arrival time of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the vicinity of the Earth is one of the most important parameters in determining space weather. We have used a new approach to predicting this parameter. First, in our study, we have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-08 Anitha Ravishankar , Grzegorz Michałek

The Time-of-Arrival (ToA) of coronal mass ejections (CME) at Earth is a key parameter due to the space weather phenomena associated with the CME arrival, such as intense geomagnetic storms. Despite the incremental use of new instrumentation…

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

Since Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are the major drivers of space weather, it is crucial to study their evolution starting from the inner corona. In this work we use Graduated Cylindrical Shell (GCS) model to study the 3D evolution of 59…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Satabdwa Majumdar , Vaibhav Pant , Ritesh Patel , Dipankar Banerjee

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the main driver of Space Weather. Therefore, a precise forecasting of their likely geo-effectiveness relies on an accurate tracking of their morphological and kinematical evolution throughout the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Nieves-Chinchilla , A. Vourlidas , G. Stenborg , N. P. Savani , A. Koval , A. Szabo , L. K. Jian

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) accelerated from shocks driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are one of the major causes of geomagnetic storms on Earth. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the occurrence and intensity of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Anitha Ravishankar , Grzegorz Michalek