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The forces acting on solar Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) in the interplanetary medium have been evaluated so far in terms of an empirical drag coefficient $C_{\rm D} \sim 1$ that quantifies the role of the aerodynamic drag experienced by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Prasad Subramanian , Alejandro Lara , Andrea Borgazzi

Electromotive force is an essential quantity in dynamo theory. During a coronal mass ejection (CME), magnetic helicity gets decoupled from the Sun and advected into the heliosphere with the solar wind. Eventually, a heliospheric magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Bernhard Hofer , Yasuhito Narita

An interplanetary shock driven by a coronal mass ejection (CME) containing an interval of sub-Alfv\'enic flow impacted Earth on April 23, 2024. In this article, we analyze the turbulence in the sheath region between the shock and CME to…

We present a comprehensive statistical analysis of 106 sheath regions driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and measured near 1 AU. Using data from the STEREO probes, this extended analysis focuses on two discrete categorizations. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 T. M. Salman , N. Lugaz , R. M. Winslow , C. J. Farrugia , L. K. Jian , A. B. Galvin

We have investigated how the degree of imbalance in solar wind turbulence is modified by large-scale velocity shears in the solar wind plasma. The balance between counterpropagating Alfv\'enic fluctuations, which interact nonlinearly to…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Juska E. Soljento , Simon W. Good , Adnane Osmane , Emilia K. J. Kilpua

The solar wind is a magnetized and turbulent plasma. Its turbulence is often dominated by Alfv\'enic fluctuations and often deemed as nearly incompressible far away from the Sun, as shown by in-situ measurements near 1AU. However, for solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xiangrong Fu , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Senbei Du , John Steinberg

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) 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 primary drivers of space weather and studying their evolution in the inner heliosphere is vital to prepare for a timely response. Solar wind streams, acting as background, influence their propagation in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-30 Prateek Mayank , Bhargav Vaidya , Wageesh Mishra , D. Chakrabarty

The Solar Orbiter (SO) mission provides the opportunity to study the evolution of solar wind turbulence. We use SO observations of nine extended intervals of homogeneous turbulence to determine when turbulent magnetic field fluctuations may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Alina Bendt , Sandra C. Chapman , Thierry Dudok de Wit

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are eruptive events that cause a solar-type star to shed mass and magnetic flux. CMEs tend to occur together with flares, radio storms, and bursts of energetic particles. On the Sun, CME-related mass loss is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Steven R. Cranmer

We identify all fast-mode forward shocks, whose sheath regions resulted in a moderate (56 cases) or intense (38 cases) geomagnetic storm during 18.5 years from January 1997 to June 2015. We study their main properties, interplanetary causes…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 N. Lugaz , C. J. Farrugia , R. M. Winslow , N. Al-Haddad , E. K. J. Kilpua , P. Riley

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) represent one type of the major eruption from the Sun. Their interplanetary counterparts, the interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs), are the direct manifestations of these structures when they propagate into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 Qiang Hu , Wen He , Lingling Zhao , Edward Lu

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

Solar wind turbulence is a dynamical phenomenon that evolves with heliocentric distance. Orbiting Mars since September 2014, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) offers a unique opportunity to explore some of its main properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Norberto Romanelli , Nahuel Andres , Gina DiBraccio , Jaye Verniero , Jacob Gruesbeck , Adam Szabo , Jared Espley , Jasper Halekas

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are highly dynamic events originating in the solar atmosphere, that show a wide range of kinematic properties and are the major drivers of the space weather. The angular width of the CMEs is a crucial parameter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 V. Pant , R. Majumdar , R. Patel , A. Chauhan , D. Banerjee , N. Gopalswamy

Using the newly developed code \emph{Menura}, we present the first global picture of the interaction between a turbulent solar wind and a planetary obstacle in our solar system, namely a comet. This first publication aims at shedding lights…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Behar Etienne , Henri Pierre

In this work, we perform a statistical study of magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind at 1 au using permutation entropy and complexity analysis, and the investigation of the temporal variations of the Hurst exponents. Slow and fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Emilia Kilpua , Simon Good , Matti Ala-Lahti , Adnane Osmane , Venla Koikkalainen

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are subject to changes in their direction of propagation, tilt, and other properties as they interact with the variable solar wind. We investigated the heliospheric propagation of 15 Earth-impacting CMEs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Sandeep Kumar , Nandita Srivastava , Nat Gopalswamy , Ashutosh Dash

The pressure and energy density of the gas and magnetic field inside solar coronal mass ejections (in relation to that in the ambient solar wind) is thought to play an important role in determining their dynamics as they propagate through…