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To understand the global-scale physical processes behind coronal mass ejection (CME)-driven geomagnetic storms and predict their intensity as a space weather forecasting measure, we develop an interplanetary CME flux rope-magnetosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Souvik Roy , Dibyendu Nandy

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are the interplanetary manifestations of solar eruptions. The overtaken solar wind forms a sheath of compressed plasma at the front of ICMEs. Magnetic clouds (MCs) are a subset of ICMEs with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 J. J. Masías-Meza , S. Dasso , P. Démoulin , L. Rodriguez , M. Janvier

Decades of studies have suggested several criteria to detect Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICME) in time series from in-situ spacecraft measurements. Among them the most common are an enhanced and smoothly rotating magnetic field,…

We investigate the evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) sheath regions at 1 AU across solar cycles 23, 24, and the rising phase of 25, focusing on their variability and turbulence in relation to upstream solar wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 C. Larrodera , M. Temmer , M. Owens

Shock heating and particle acceleration processes are some of the most fundamental physical phenomena of plasma physics with countless applications in laboratory physics, space physics, and astrophysics. This study is motivated by previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. E. Korreck , T. H. Zurbuchen , S. T. Lepri , J. M . Raines

The polytropic index of electrons in a magnetized plasma is experimentally investigated in the presence of heating and anisotropic work done, incorporating the effective dimensionality arising from temperature anisotropy. The study is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Ayesha Nanda , Sudeep Bhattacharjee

The magnetic fields of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), which originate close to the Sun in the form of a flux rope, determine their geoeffectiveness. Therefore, robust flux rope-based models of CMEs are required to perform…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Talwinder Singh , Tae K. Kim , Nikolai V. Pogorelov , Charles N. Arge

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…

This paper explores the thermodynamics of fluctuating polytropic processes and their connection to turbulence. It is shown that random fluctuations of polytropic processes produce a nonzero overall heating of a particle system, e.g., solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 G. Livadiotis , D. J. McComas

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun and are considered the main driver of adverse space weather events. Hence, undrstanding its formation process, particularly the magnetic topology, is critical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Jinhan Guo , Y. W. Ni , B. Schmieder , Y. Guo , C. Xia , P. Devi , R. Chandra , S. Poedts , R. Joshi , Y. H. Zhou , H. T. Li , P. F. Chen

Coronal and interplanetary shock waves produced by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are major drivers of space-weather phenomena, inducing major changes in the heliospheric radiation environment and directly perturbing the near-Earth…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Manon Jarry , Alexis P. Rouillard , Illya Plotnikov , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Alexander Warmuth

Many aspects of the three-dimensional (3-D) structure and evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) remain unexplained. Here, we investigate two main topics: (1) the coherence scale of magnetic fields inside ICMEs, and (2)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Camilla Scolini , Reka M. Winslow , Noé Lugaz , Stefaan Poedts

In this work, we establish an ICME list from 1996 to 2014 based on the in-situ observations from the WIND and ACE satellites. Based on this ICME list, we extend the statistical analysis of the ICMEs to the solar maximum phase of solar cycle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yutian Chi , Chenglong Shen , Yuming Wang , Pinzhong Ye , S. Wang

Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs) are recurring structures in the solar wind, characterized by interactions between fast and slow solar wind streams that compress and heat plasma. This study investigates the polytropic behavior of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 M. A. Dayeh , M. J. Starkey , G. Livadiotis , S. Hart , A. A. Shmies , R. C. Allen , R. Bučik , H. Elliott

Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) are known to modify the structure of the solar wind as well as interact with the space environment of planetary systems. Their large magnetic structures have been shown to interact with galactic…

As an important source for large geomagnetic storms, an "ICME-in-sheath" is a completely shocked interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) stuck in the sheath between a shock and host ejecta. Typical characteristics are identified from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Ying D. Liu , Chong Chen , Xiaowei Zhao

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) have low proton beta across a broad range of heliocentric distances and a magnetic flux rope structure at large scales, making them a unique environment for studying solar wind fluctuations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-17 S. W. Good , O. K. Rantala , A. -S. M. Jylhä , C. H. K. Chen , C. Möstl , E. K. J. Kilpua

During the propagation of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), evolution of the ICME-driven shock along with interactions with other solar wind structures, planetary bodies, and general changes to their morphology can alter…

In this paper we model the high-energy tail of observed solar energetic proton energy distributions with a kappa distribution function. We employ a technique for deriving the thermodynamic parameters of solar energetic proton populations…

The hot plasma in galaxy clusters is expected to be heated to high temperatures through shocks and adiabatic compression. The thermodynamical properties of the gas encode information on the processes leading to the thermalization of the gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 V. Ghirardini , D. Eckert , S. Ettori , E. Pointecouteau , S. Molendi , M. Gaspari , M. Rossetti , S. De Grandi , M. Roncarelli , H. Bourdin , P. Mazzotta , E. Rasia , F. Vazza