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Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are the largest energy release phenomena in the current solar system. They cause drastic enhancements of electromagnetic waves of various wavelengths and sometimes eject coronal material into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-14 Shin Toriumi , Sung-Hong Park

The space weather is extremely mild during solar cycle 24: the number of major geomagnetic storms and high-energy solar energetic particle events are at the lowest since the dawn of the space age. Solar wind measurements at 1 AU using Wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-10 Nat Gopalswamy , Sachiko Akiyama , Seiji Yashiro , Hong Xie , Pertti Makela , Grzegorz Michalek

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are energetic storms in the Sun that result in the ejection of large-scale magnetic clouds (MCs) in interplanetary space that contain enhanced magnetic fields with coherently changing field direction. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Sanchita Pal , Dibyendu Nandy , Emilia K J Kilpua

Shocks driven by Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are primary agents of space weather. They can accelerate particles to high energies and can compress the magnetosphere thus setting in motion geomagnetic storms. For many years, these shocks…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-09 Angelos Vourlidas , Alessandro Bemporad

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), often associated with flares, are the most powerful magnetic phenomena occurring on the Sun. Stars show magnetic activity levels up to 10^4 times higher, and CME effects on stellar physics and circumstellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 C. Argiroffi , F. Reale , J. J. Drake , A. Ciaravella , P. Testa , R. Bonito , M. Miceli , S. Orlando , G. Peres

Space weather, driven by solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), poses significant risks to technological systems. Accurately forecasting these events and their impact on Earth's magnetosphere remains a challenge because of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Sabrina Guastavino , Edoardo Legnaro , Anna Maria Massone , Michele Piana

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) contributes to the perturbation of solar wind in the heliosphere. Thus, depending on the different phases of the solar cycle and the rate of CME occurrence, contribution of CMEs to solar wind parameters near…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Wageesh Mishra , Nandita Srivastava , Zavkiddin Mirtoshev , Yuming Wang

Among the eruptive activity phenomena observed on the Sun, the most technology threatening ones are flares with associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar energetic particles (SEPs). Flares with associated CMEs and SEPs are produced…

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

Energetic flares and associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from young magnetically active solar-like stars can play a critical role in setting conditions for atmospheric escape as well aspenetration of accelerated particles into their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Christina Kay , Vladimir S. Airapetian , Theresa Lüftinger , Oleg Kochukhov

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are violent ejections of magnetized plasma from the Sun, which can trigger geomagnetic storms, endanger satellite operations and destroy electrical infrastructures on the Earth. After systematically searching…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Hong-peng Lu , Hui Tian , He-chao Chen , Yu Xu , Zhen-yong Hou , Xian-yong Bai , Guang-yu Tan , Zi-hao Yang , Jie Ren

Solar eruptions, including flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), have a significant impact on Earth. Some flares are associated with CMEs, and some flares are not. The association between flares and CMEs is not always obvious. In this…

Many questions must be answered before understanding the relationship between the emerging magnetic flux through the solar surface and the extreme geoeffective events. The main ingredients for getting X-ray class flares and large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Brigitte Schmieder , Jinhan Guo , Guillaume Aulanier , Anwesha Maharana , Stefaan Poedts

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are primary drivers of space weather and studying their evolution in the inner heliosphere is vital to prepare for a timely response. Solar wind streams, acting as background, influence their propagation in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-30 Prateek Mayank , Bhargav Vaidya , Wageesh Mishra , D. Chakrabarty

The aim of this white paper is to briefly summarize some of the outstanding gaps in the observations and modeling of stellar flares, CMEs, and exoplanetary space weather, and to discuss how the theoretical and computational tools and…

Investigating the heliospheric evolution and consequences of Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is critical to understanding the solar-terrestrial relationship. For the first time, Heliospheric Imagers (HIs) onboard STEREO, providing multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-22 Wageesh Mishra

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

High-speed solar wind streams (HSSs) interact with the preceding ambient solar wind to form Stream Interaction Regions (SIRs), which are a primary source of recurrent geomagnetic storms. However, HSSs may also encounter and subsequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Stephan G. Heinemann , Chaitanya Sishtla , Simon Good , Maxime Grandin , Jens Pomoell

The severe geomagnetic effects of solar storms or coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are to a large degree determined by their propagation direction with respect to Earth. There is a lack of understanding of the processes that determine their…