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A fundamental property of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is their radial expansion, which determines the increase in the CME radial size and the decrease in the CME magnetic field strength as the CME propagates. CME radial expansion can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Bin Zhuang , Noé Lugaz , Nada Al-Haddad , Réka M. Winslow , Camilla Scolini , Charles J. Farrugia , Antoinette B. Galvin

Forecasting the in situ properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from remote images is expected to strongly enhance predictions of space weather, and is of general interest for studying the interaction of CMEs with planetary…

Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun into the corona and interplanetary space. They are the most significant drivers of adverse space weather at Earth and other locations in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-20 Jason P. Byrne

The dynamic process of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the heliosphere provides us the key information for evaluating CMEs' geo-effectiveness and improving the accurate prediction of CME induced Shock Arrival Time (SAT) at the Earth. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 Fang Shen , Chenglong Shen , Jie Zhang , Phillip Hess , Yuming Wang , Xueshang Feng , Hongze Cheng , Yi Yang

Understanding coronal mass ejection (CME) energetics and dynamics has been a long-standing problem, and although previous observational estimates have been made, such studies have been hindered by large uncertainties in CME mass. Here, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Eoin P. Carley , R. T. James McAteer , Peter T. Gallagher

Alerts of potentially hazardous coronal mass ejections (CME) are based on the detection of rapid changes in remote observations of the solar atmosphere. This paper presents a method that detects and estimates the central coordinates of CME…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Thomas Williams , Huw Morgan

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

The Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) provides high cadence and high resolution images of the structure and morphology of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the inner heliosphere. CME directions and propagation speeds have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-31 Savani , N. P. , Davies , J. A. , Davis , C. J. , Shiota , D. , Rouillard , A. P. , Owens , M. J. , Kusano , K. , Bothmer , V. , Bamford , S. P. , Lintott , C. J. , Smith , A

The SECCHI instruments aboard the recently launched STEREO spacecraft enable for the first time the continuous tracking of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun to 1 AU. We analyze line-of-sight observations of the January 24-25, 2007…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-05-18 N. Lugaz , A. Vourlidas , I. I. Roussev , H. Morgan

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

A method for the full three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of the trajectories of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) data is presented. Four CMEs that were simultaneously observed by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-14 Shane A. Maloney , Peter T. Gallagher , R. T. James McAteer

Understanding the evolution of radial sizes and instantaneous expansion speeds of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is crucial for assessing their impact duration on Earth's environment. We introduce a non-conventional approach to derive the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 Anjali Agarwal , Wageesh Mishra

The primary objective of this study is to connect the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) to their source regions, primarily creating a CME source region (CSR) catalogue, and secondly probing into the influence the source regions have on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-27 Satabdwa Majumdar , Ritesh Patel , Vaibhav Pant , Dipankar Banerjee , Aarushi Rawat , Abhas Pradhan , Paritosh Singh

The existence of shocks driven by Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) has always been assumed based on the superalfvenic speeds for some of these events and on indirect evidence such as radio bursts and distant streamer deflections. However, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Vourlidas , V. Ontiveros

We assess the relative strength of solar cycle (SC) 25 with respect to SCs 23 and 24 based on the abundance of halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We make use of the halo CME database (https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/CME_list/halo/halo.html) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Nat Gopalswamy , Grzegorz Michalek , Seiji Yashiro , Pertti Makela , Sachiko Akiyama , Hong Xie

With the assumption of radial motion and uniform longitudinal distribution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), we propose a method to eliminate projection effects from the apparent observed CME latitude distribution. This method has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Song Wenbin , Feng Xueshang , Hu Yanqi

The relative importance of different initiation mechanisms for coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on the Sun is uncertain. One possible mechanism is the loss of equilibrium of coronal magnetic flux ropes formed gradually by large-scale surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. R. Yeates , G. D. R. Attrill , Dibyendu Nandy , D. H. Mackay , P. C. H. Martens , A. A. van Ballegooijen

Coronal mass ejection (CME) often produces a soft X-ray (SXR) flare associated with the low-coronal reconnection and a type-II radio burst associated with an interplanetary (IP) CME-shock. SXR flares and type-II bursts outshine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Atul Mohan , Nat Gopalswamy , Hemapriya Raju , Sachiko Akiyama

In 2010 May 23-24, SDO observed the launch of two successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which were subsequently tracked by the SECCHI suite onboard STEREO. Using the COR2 coronagraphs and the heliospheric imagers (HIs), the initial…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Lugaz , C. J. Farrugia , J. A. Davies , C. Möstl , C. J. Davis , I. I. Roussev , M. Temmer

Being able to accurately predict the arrival of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at Earth has been a long-standing problem in space weather research and operations. In this study, we use the ELlipse Evolution model based on Heliospheric Images…