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We report the formation of a complicated coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2015 August 23 by using the high temporal and high spatial resolution multi-wavelength observations taken by the Solar Dynamic Observatory and the Solar and…

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On 2022 March 28 two successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were observed by multiple spacecraft and resulted in a magnetic cloud (MC) at 1 AU. We investigate the propagation and interaction properties of the two CMEs correlated with the…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Chong Chen , Ying D. Liu , Bei Zhu , Huidong Hu , Rui Wang

Despite the significance of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in space weather, a comprehensive understanding of their interior morphology remains a scientific challenge, particularly with the advent of many state-of-the-art solar missions such…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) stand as intense eruptions of magnetized plasma from the Sun, playing a pivotal role in driving significant changes of the heliospheric environment. Deducing the properties of CMEs from their progenitors in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-15 J. H. Guo , L. Linan , S. Poedts , Y. Guo , B. Schmieder , A. Lani , Y. W. Ni , M. Brchnelova , B. Perri , T. Baratashvili , S. T. Li , P. F. Chen

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

The Sun's atmosphere is frequently disrupted by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), coupled with flares and energetic particles. In the standard picture, the coupling is explained by magnetic reconnection at a vertical current sheet connecting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-11 Tingyu Gou , Rui Liu , Bernhard Kliem , Yuming Wang , Astrid M. Veronig

Although coronal mass ejections (CMEs) resembling flux ropes generally expand self-similarly, deformations along their fronts have been reported in observations and simulations. We present evidence of one CME becoming deformed after a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Carlos R. Braga , Angelos Vourlidas , Paulett C. Liewer , Phillip Hess , Guillermo Stenborg , Pete Riley

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale explosions of the coronal magnetic field. It is believed that magnetic reconnection significantly builds up the core structure of CMEs, a magnetic flux rope, during the eruption. However, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 C. Xing , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

Current coronal mass ejection (CME) models set their lower boundary to be in the lower corona. They do not calculate accurately the transfer of free magnetic energy from the convection zone to the magnetically dominated corona because they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Spiro K. Antiochos

Simulating coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from their origin in active regions (ARs) to their propagation to Earth remains challenging, particularly when aiming to resolve AR scales and employ realistic magnetic field strengths without…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Liping Yang , Huichao Li , Jinhan Guo , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

A clear understanding of the nature of the pre-eruptive magnetic field configurations of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) is required for understanding and eventually predicting solar eruptions. Only two, but seemingly disparate, magnetic…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are explosive plasma phenomena prevalently occurring on the Sun and probably on other magnetically active stars. However, how their pre-eruptive configuration evolves toward the main explosion remains elusive.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 X. Cheng , C. Xing , G. Aulanier , S. K. Solanki , H. Peter , M. D. Ding

The magnetic orientation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is of great importance to understand their space weather effects. Although many evidences suggest that CMEs can undergo significant rotation during the early phases of evolution in…

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) constitute the core structure of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), but hot debates remain on whether the MFR forms before or during solar eruptions. Furthermore, how flare reconnection shapes the erupting MFR is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-20 Chaowei Jiang , Jun Chen , Aiying Duan , Xinkai Bian , Xinyi Wang , Jiaying Li , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng

Magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) are believed to be at the heart of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs). A well-known example is the prominence cavity in the low corona that sometimes makes up a three-part white-light (WL) CME upon its eruption.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Bin Chen , Timothy S. Bastian , Dale E. Gary

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

We propose a new model for the initiation of a solar coronal mass ejection (CME). The model agrees with two properties of CMEs and eruptive flares that have proved to be very difficult to explain with previous models. a) Very low-lying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. K. Antiochos , C. R. DeVore , J. A. Klimchuk

The arrival of a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) at the Earth resulted in a great geomagnetic storm on 10 May 2024, the strongest storm in the last two decades. We investigate the kinematic and thermal evolution of the successive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Soumyaranjan Khuntia , Wageesh Mishra , Anjali Agarwal

Stealth coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are events in which there are almost no observable signatures of the CME eruption in the low corona but often a well-resolved slow flux rope CME observed in the coronagraph data. We present results from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 B. J. Lynch , S. Masson , Y. Li , C. R. DeVore , J. G. Luhmann , S. K. Antiochos , G. H. Fisher