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Ultraviolet spectra of the extended solar corona have been routinely obtained by SoHO/UVCS since 1996. Sudden variations of spectral parameters are mainly due to the detection of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) crossing the instrumental slit.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Silvio Giordano , Angela Ciaravella , John Raymond , Yuan-Kuen Ko , Raid Suleiman

Predicting the impacts of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is a major focus of current space weather forecasting efforts. Typically, CME properties are reconstructed from stereoscopic coronal images and then used to forward model a CME's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 C. Kay , E. Palmerio

We analyze the detection capability of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) for all currently operating coronagraphs in space. We define as CMEs events that propagate beyond 10 solar radii with morphologies broadly consistent with a magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Angelos Vourlidas , L. A. Balmaceda , H. Xie , O. C. St. Cyr

We compare estimates of the speed and width of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in several catalogs for the CMEs associated with ~200 solar energetic particle (SEP) events in 2006-2013 that included 25 MeV protons. The catalogs used are: CDAW,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Ian G. Richardson , Tycho T. von Rosenvinge , Hilary V. Cane

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are spectacular ejections of material from the Sun as seen in the coronal field of view. Regular observations are possible with both ground-based and space-based coronagraphs. I present our current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nandita Srivastava

The LASCO coronagraphs, in continuous operation since 1995, have observed the evolution of the solar corona and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) over a full solar cycle with high quality images and regular cadence. This is the first time that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Angelos Vourlidas , Russ A. Howard , Ed Esfandiari , Spiros Patsourakos , Seiji Yashiro , Gregorz Michalek

Studying coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in coronagraph data can be challenging due to their diffuse structure and transient nature, compounded by the variations in their dynamics, morphology, and frequency of occurrence. The large amounts of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jason P. Byrne

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are major drivers of geomagnetic storms, which may cause severe space weather effects. Automating the detection, tracking, and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of CMEs is important for operational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Jiahui Shan , Huapeng Zhang , Lei Lu , Yan Zhang , Li Feng , Yunyi Ge , Jianchao Xue , Shuting Li

We investigated some properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), such as speed, acceleration, polar angle, angular width, and mass, using data acquired by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) onboard the Solar and Heliospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 A. Compagnino , P. Romano , F. Zuccarello

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and other solar eruptive phenomena can be physically linked by combining data from a multitude of ground-based and space-based instruments alongside models, however this can be challenging for automated…

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are significant drivers of geomagnetic activity, and understanding these structures is critical to developing and improving forecasting tools for space weather. The Solar Orbiter (SolO) mission, with its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 C. Mac Cormack , S. B. Shaik , P. Hess , R. Colaninno , T. Nieves-Chinchilla

The shape and dynamics of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) vary significantly based on the instrument and wavelength used. This has led to significant debate about the proper definitions of CME/shock fronts, pile-up/compression regions, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Oleg Stepanyuk , Kamen Kozarev

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large eruptions from the Sun that propagate through the heliosphere after launch. Observational studies of these transient phenomena are usually based on 2D images of the Sun, corona, and heliosphere…

We examine the energetics of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) with data from the LASCO coronagraphs on SOHO. The LASCO observations provide fairly direct measurements of the mass, velocity and dimensions of CMEs. Using these basic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Angelos Vourlidas , Prasad Subramanian , K. P. Dere , R. A. Howard

In this study we refine a CME model presented in an earlier study on the global energetics of solar flares and associated CMEs, and apply it to all (860) GOES M- and X-class flare events observed during the first 7 years (2010-2016) of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-26 Markus J. Aschwanden

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are solar eruptions into interplanetary space of as much as a few billion tons of plasma, with embedded magnetic fields from the Sun's corona. These perturbations play a very important role in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Hernandez-Cervantes , A. Santillan , A. R. Gonzalez-Ponce

We present a statistical analysis of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) imaged by the Heliospheric Imager (HI) instruments aboard NASAs twin-spacecraft STEREO mission between April 2007 and August 2017 for STEREO-A and between April 2007 and…

We identify coronal mass ejections (CMEs) associated with magnetic clouds (MCs) observed near Earth by the Wind spacecraft from 2008 to mid-2012, a time period when the two STEREO spacecraft were well positioned to study Earth-directed…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and corotating interaction regions (CIRs) as well as their source regions are important because of their space weather consequences. The current understanding of CMEs primarily comes from the Solar and…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) with angular width $> 30^{\circ}$ have been observed to occur at a higher rate during solar cycle 24 compared to cycle 23, per sunspot number. This result is supported by data from three independent databases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Gordon Petrie
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