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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) play a decisive role in driving space weather, especially, the fast ones (e.g., with speeds above $800$~km~s$^{-1}$). Understanding the trigger mechanisms of fast CMEs can help us gaining important information…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Peng Zou , Chaowei Jiang , Fengsi Wei , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

A number of stellar astrophysical phenomena, such as tidal novae and planetary engulfment, involve sudden injection of sub-binding energy in a thin layer within the star, leading to mass ejection of the stellar envelope. We use a 1D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nicholas Corso , Dong Lai

We investigate the coronal and interplanetary evolution of a coronal mass ejection (CME) launched on 2010 September 4 from a source region linking two active regions (ARs) 11101 and 11103, using extreme ultraviolet imaging, magnetogram,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Huidong Hu , Ying D. Liu , Rui Wang , Xiaowei Zhao , Bei Zhu , Zhongwei Yang

Solar eruptions, known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), are frequently observed on our Sun. Recent Kepler observations of superflares on G-type stars have implied that so called super-CMEs, possessing kinetic energies 10 times of the most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Vladimir S. Airapetian , Alex Glocer , William Danchi

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

Solar eruptions are usually associated with a variety of phenomena occurring in the low corona before, during, and after onset of eruption. Though easily visible in coronagraph observations, so-called stealth coronal mass ejections (CMEs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 E. D'Huys , D. B. Seaton , S. Poedts , D. Berghmans

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are powered by magnetic energy stored in electric currents in coronal magnetic fields, with the pre-CME field in balance between outward magnetic pressure of the proto-ejecta and inward magnetic tension from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 J. Suzuki , B. T. Welsch , Y. Li

We present an analysis of the fast coronal mass ejection (CME) of 2012 March 7, which was imaged by both STEREO spacecraft and observed in situ by MESSENGER, Venus Express, Wind and Mars Express. Based on detected arrivals at four different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-18 T. Rollett , C. Moestl , M. Temmer , R. A. Frahm , J. A. Davies , A. M. Veronig , B. Vrsnak , U. V. Amerstorfer , C. J. Farrugia , T. Zic , T. L. Zhang

This paper reviews recent progress in the research on the initiation and propagation of CMEs. In the initiation part, several trigger mechanisms are discussed; In the propagation part, the observations and modelings of EIT waves/dimmings,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. F. Chen

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…

How to properly understand coronal mass ejections (CMEs) viewed in white-light coronagraphs is crucial to many relative researches in solar and space physics. The issue is now particularly addressed in this paper through studying the source…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-12 Yuming Wang , Caixia Chen , Bin Gui , Chenglong Shen , Pinzhong Ye , S. Wang

We investigate the deflection and rotation behavior of 49 Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) spanning the period from 2010 to 2020 aiming to understand the potential influence of coronal holes (CHs) on their trajectories. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Suresh Karuppiah , Mateja Dumbović , Karmen Martinić , Manuela Temmer , Stephan G. Heinemann , Bojan Vršnak

We carry out a numerical simulation depicting the effects of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) event on a close-in giant planet in an extrasolar system. We drive the CME in a similar manner as in simulations of space weather events on Earth.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 O. Cohen , V. L. Kashyap , J. J. Drake , I. V. Sokolov , T. I. Gombosi

We study dynamics of relativistic Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), from launching by shearing of foot-points (either slowly - the ``Solar flare'' paradigm, or suddenly - the ``star quake" paradigm), to propagation in the preceding magnetar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 Praveen Sharma , Maxim Barkov , Maxim Lyutikov

The statistical study of the Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) is a hot topic in solar physics. To further reveal the temporal and spatial behaviors of the CMEs at different latitudes and heights, we analyzed the correlation and phase…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jiaqi Lin , Feng Wang , Linhua Deng , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Yangfan Xie

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most important drivers of space weather. Central to most CMEs is thought to be the eruption of a bundle of highly twisted magnetic field lines known as magnetic flux ropes. A comprehensive understanding…

Aims. The magnetic field of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) determines their structure, evolution, and energetics, as well as their geoeffectiveness. However, we currently lack routine diagnostics of the near-Sun CME magnetic field, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 S. Patsourakos , M. K. Georgoulis

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions with a typical radial size at 1 au of 0.21 au but their angular width in interplanetary space is still mostly unknown, especially for the magnetic ejecta (ME) part of the CME. We take…

The radial expansion of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is known to occur from remote observations; from the variation of their properties with radial distance; and from local in situ plasma measurements showing a decreasing speed profile…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 N. Lugaz , T. M. Salman , R. M. Winslow , N. Al-Haddad , C. J. Farrugia , B. Zhuang , A. B. Galvin

Understanding the early evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), in particular their initiation, is the key to forecasting solar eruptions and induced disastrous space weather. Although many initiation mechanisms have been proposed, a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Chen Xing , Guillaume Aulanier , Xin Cheng , Chun Xia , Mingde Ding