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We study a coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with an X-class flare, whose initiation is clearly observed in low corona with high-cadence, high-resolution EUV images, providing us a rare opportunity to witness the early evolution of an…

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The solar corona is frequently disrupted by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), whose core structure is believed to be a flux rope made of helical magnetic field. This has become a "standard" picture although it remains elusive how the flux rope…

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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…

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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…

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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from pseudostreamers represent a significant fraction of large-scale eruptions from the Sun. In some cases, these CMEs take a narrow jet-like form reminiscent of coronal jets; in others, they have a much…

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Theoretically, CME kinematics are related to magnetic reconnection processes in the solar corona. However, the current quantitative understanding of this relationship is based on the analysis of only a handful of events. Here we report a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Chunming Zhu , Jiong Qiu , Paulett Liewer , Angelos Vourlidas , Michael Spiegel , Qiang Hu

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are the most energetic expulsions of magnetized plasma from the Sun that play a crucial role in space weather dynamics. This study investigates the diverse kinematics and thermodynamic evolution of two CMEs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Soumyaranjan Khuntia , Wageesh Mishra , Sudheer K Mishra , Yuming Wang , Jie Zhang , Shaoyu Lyu

Magnetic flux ropes play a central role in the physics of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Although a flux rope topology is inferred for the majority of coronagraphic observations of CMEs, a heated debate rages on whether the flux ropes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , G. Stenborg

It is well known that there is temporal relationship between coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and associated flares. The duration of the acceleration phase is related to the duration of the rise phase of a flare. We investigate CMEs associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-01 U. Bak-Steslicka , S. Kolomanski , T. Mrozek

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are associated with the eruption of magnetic flux ropes (MFRs), which usually appear as hot channels in active regions and coronal cavities in quiet-Sun regions. CMEs often exhibit the classical three-part…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Hongqiang Song , Leping Li , Yao Chen

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale explosions of the coronal magnetic field. It is believed that magnetic reconnection significantly builds up the core structure of CMEs, a magnetic flux rope, during the eruption. However, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 C. Xing , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and eruptive flares (EFs) are the most energetic explosions in the solar system. Their underlying origin is the free energy that builds up slowly in the sheared magnetic field of a filament channel. We report…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-03 Joel T. Dahlin , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions of plasma from the coronae of stars. Understanding the plasma processes involved in CME initiation has applications to space weather forecasting and laboratory plasma experiments.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Alexander W. James , Gherardo Valori , Lucie M. Green , Yang Liu , Mark C. M. Cheung , Yang Guo , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were discovered in the early 1970s when space-borne coronagraphs revealed that eruptions of plasma are ejected from the Sun. Today, it is known that the Sun produces eruptive flares, filament eruptions, coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Lucie Green , Tibor Torok , Bojan Vrsnak , Ward Manchester , Astrid Veronig

Earlier studies on Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), using remote sensing and in situ observations, have attempted to determine some of the internal properties of CMEs, which were limited to a certain position or a certain time. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Wageesh Mishra , Yuming Wang

It is well accepted that a magnetic flux rope (MFR) is a critical component of many coronal mass ejections (CMEs), yet how it evolves toward eruption remains unclear. Here we investigate the continuous evolution of a pre-existing MFR, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Wensi Wang , Chunming Zhu , Jiong Qiu , Rui Liu , Kai E. Yang , Qiang Hu

Understanding the magnetic configuration of the source regions of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is vital in order to determine the trigger and driver of these events. Observations of four CME productive active regions are presented here,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-17 Lucie M. Green , Bernhard Kliem

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large scale eruptions observed close to the Sun. They are travelling through the heliosphere and possibly interacting with the Earth environment creating interruptions or even damaging new technology…

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