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Our knowledge of the properties of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) in the inner heliosphere is constrained by the relative lack of plasma observations between Sun and 1 AU. In this work, we present a comprehensive catalog of 47 CMEs measured…

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Voyager 1 has explored the solar wind-interstellar medium interaction region between the terminal shock and heliopause following the intensity distribution of galactic cosmic ray protons above 200 MeV energy. Before this component reached…

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Fluctuations in the Sun's photospheric magnetic field are the primary source of the turbulence that can heat and accelerate the solar atmosphere, and thus play an important role in the production and evolution of the solar wind that…

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Accurate space weather forecasting requires knowledge of the trajectory of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), including any deflections close to the Sun or through interplanetary space. Kay et al. 2013 introduced ForeCAT, a model of CME…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Kay , M. Opher , R. M. Evans

Magnetic turbulence is classified as weak or strong based on the relative amplitude of the magnetic field fluctuations compared to the mean field. These two classifications have different energy transport properties. This study analyzes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-13 Evangelia Ntormousi , Loukas Vlahos , Anna Konstantinou , Heinz Isliker

Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can catch up and interact with preceding CMEs and solar wind structures to undergo rotation and deflection during their propagation. We aim to show how interactions undergone by a CME in the corona and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Anwesha Maharana , Camilla Scolini , Brigitte Schmieder , Stefaan Poedts

One of the goals of Space Weather studies is to achieve a better understanding of impulsive phenomena, such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), in order to improve our ability to forecast them and mitigate the risk to our technologically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 R. Mugatwala , S. Chierichini , G. Francisco , G. Napoletano , R. Foldes , L. Giovannelli , G. De Gasperis , E. Camporeale , R. Erdélyi , D. Del Moro

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), powerful solar eruptions with massive plasma ejected into the interplanetary space, are caused by the release of the magnetic free enengy stored in coronal electric currents. Photospheric current helicity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Zheng Sun , Ting Li , Xinkai Bian , Yijun Hou , Ioannis Kontogiannis , Ziqi Wu

Fast interplanetary coronal mass ejections (interplanetary CMEs, or ICMEs) are the drivers of strongest space weather storms such as solar energetic particle events and geomagnetic storms. The connection between space weather impacting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Takuya Takahashi , Kazunari Shibata

We make use of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) data to explore the nature of solar wind turbulence focusing on the Alfv\'enic character and power spectra of the fluctuations and their dependence on distance and context (i.e. large scale solar…

Intermittency has been studied extensively in the fast and slow solar winds but to a far lesser extent in interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). While ICMEs are often characterized by their relatively smooth, large-scale magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Julia Ruohotie , Simon Good , Christian Möstl , Emilia Kilpua

Similar to the Sun, other stars shed mass and magnetic flux via ubiquitous quasi-steady wind and episodic stellar coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We investigate the mass loss rate via solar wind and CMEs as a function of solar magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Wageesh Mishra , Nandita Srivastava , Yuming Wang , Zavkiddin Mirtoshev , Jie Zhang , Rui Liu

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun into the heliosphere and are the most important driver of space weather. The geo-effectiveness of a CME is primarily determined by its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-26 Devojyoti Kansabanik

Stealth coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are eruptions from the Sun that have no obvious low coronal signature. These CMEs are characteristically slower events, but can still be geoeffective and affect space weather at Earth. Therefore,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Jennifer O'kane , Lucie Green , David M. Long , Hamish Reid

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) have become one of the key indicators of solar activity, especially in terms of the consequences of the transient events in the heliosphere. Although CMEs are closely related to the sunspot number (SSN), they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Nat Gopalswamy

We apply statistical analysis to search for processes responsible for turbulence in physical systems. In our previous studies, we have shown that solar wind turbulence in the inertial range of large magnetohydrodynamic scales exhibits…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Dariusz Wójcik , Wiesław M. Macek

We rewrite Poynting's theorem, already used in a previous publication (Treumann & Baumjohann 2017) to derive relations between the turbulent magnetic and electric power spectral densities, to make explicit where the mechanical contributions…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

We present an analysis of the fast coronal mass ejection (CME) of 2012 March 7, which was imaged by both STEREO spacecraft and observed in situ by MESSENGER, Venus Express, Wind and Mars Express. Based on detected arrivals at four different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-18 T. Rollett , C. Moestl , M. Temmer , R. A. Frahm , J. A. Davies , A. M. Veronig , B. Vrsnak , U. V. Amerstorfer , C. J. Farrugia , T. Zic , T. L. Zhang

To accurately predict the space weather effects of coronal mass ejection (CME) impacts at Earth one must know if and when a CME will impact Earth, and the CME parameters upon impact. Kay et al. (2015b) presents Forecasting a CME's Altered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 C. Kay , M. Opher , R. C. Colaninno , A. Vourlidas

Shocks driven by Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are primary agents of space weather. They can accelerate particles to high energies and can compress the magnetosphere thus setting in motion geomagnetic storms. For many years, these shocks…

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