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Owing to our dependance on spaceborne technology, an awareness of disturbances in the near-Earth space environment is proving to be increasingly crucial. Earth-directed Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) emanating from the Sun are the primary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-17 Arun Babu

Context. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the main driver of solar wind disturbances near Earth. When directed towards us, the internal magnetic field of the CME can interact with the Earth`s magnetic field and cause geomagnetic storms. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Tinatin Baratashvili , Stefaan Poedts

Forecasting the geomagnetic effects of solar storms, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), is currently severely limited by our inability to predict the magnetic field configuration in the CME magnetic core and by observational effects of…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) represent the most extreme solar products, showing complex and dynamic structures when detected in situ. They are often preceded by a shock and carry a magnetic cloud organised as a flux rope, surrounded and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Mattia Sangalli , Andrea Verdini , Simone Landi , Emanuele Papini

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 analyze five events of the interaction of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) with the remote coronal rays located up to 90^\circ away from the CME as observed by the SOHO/LASCO C2 coronagraph. Using sequences of SOHO/LASCO C2 images, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Boris Filippov , A. K. Srivastava

The Fixed-\Phi (F\Phi) and Harmonic Mean (HM) fitting methods are two methods to determine the average direction and velocity of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from time-elongation tracks produced by Heliospheric Imagers (HIs), such as the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-18 N. Lugaz , P. Kintner

We present an investigation of the rotation and non-radial motion of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from AR 12468 on 2015 December 16 using observations from SDO, SOHO, STEREO A and Wind. The EUV and HMI observations of the source region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Yi A. Liu , Ying D. Liu , Huidong Hu , Rui Wang , Xiaowei Zhao

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

Predicting the effects of a coronal mass ejection (CME) impact requires knowing if impact will occur, which part of the CME impacts, and its magnetic properties. We explore the relation between CME deflections and rotations, which change…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 C. Kay , N. Gopalswamy

Aims: We statistically investigate the plasma and magnetic field characteristics of the upstream regions of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) and their evolution as function of distance to the Sun in the inner heliosphere. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Manuela Temmer , Volker Bothmer

We determine the 3D geometry and deprojected mass of 29 well-observed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their interplanetary counterparts (ICMEs) using combined STEREO-SOHO white-light data. From the geometry parameters we calculate the…

Numerical models of the solar wind and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) utilize photospheric magnetic field observations to prescribe the inner boundary conditions for the plasma solutions. These magnetic field data are available to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Nishtha Sachdeva , Zhenguang Huang , Gabor Toth , Hongfan Chen , Ward B. Manchester , Bart van der Holst

Large-scale propagating fronts are frequently observed during solar eruptions, yet it is open whether they are waves or not, partly because the propagation is modulated by coronal structures, whose magnetic field we still cannot measure.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-04 Rui Liu , Yuming Wang , Jeongwoo Lee , Chenglong Shen

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

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are phenomena in which the Sun suddenly releases a mass of energy and magnetized plasma, potentially leading to adverse space weather. Numerical simulation provides an important avenue for comprehensively…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Jinnan Cai , Ling Zhang , Chaowei Jiang , Kuo Yan , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

The morphology and heliospheric impact of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are strongly shaped by their preeruptive magnetic configuration and surrounding coronal environment, yet these influences remain difficult to constrain observationally.…

This study covers a thorough statistical investigation of the evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) with and without sheaths, through a broad heliocentric distance and temporal range. The analysis treats the sheath and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 C. Larrodera , M. Temmer

The evolution of the magnetic field and plasma quantities inside a coronal mass ejection (CME) with distance are known from statistical studies using data from 1 au monitors, planetary missions, Helios, and Ulysses. This does not cover the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Nada Al-Haddad , Noe Lugaz , Stefaan Poedts , Charles J. Farrugia and , Teresa 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