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Despite helium abundance (AHe = nH/nHe) is ~ 8 % at the solar photospheric/chromospheric heights, AHe can be found to exceed 8% in interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) on many occasions. Although various factors like interplanetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Yogesh , D. Chakrabarty , N. Srivastava

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

In situ measurements of interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) composition, including elemental abundances and charge states of heavy ions, open a new avenue to study coronal mass ejections (CMEs) besides remote-sensing observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-03 Hongqiang Song , Shuo Yao

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions from the Sun into interplanetary space. Despite being major space weather drivers, our knowledge of the CME properties in the inner heliosphere remains constrained by the scarcity of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Camilla Scolini , Sergio Dasso , Luciano Rodriguez , Andrei N. Zhukov , Stefaan Poedts

Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) are known to modify the structure of the solar wind as well as interact with the space environment of planetary systems. Their large magnetic structures have been shown to interact with galactic…

Space weather predictions are necessary to avoid damage caused by intense geomagnetic storms. Such strong storms are usually caused by a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) passing at Earth or by the arrival of strong coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Tinatin Baratashvili , Beatrice Popescu Braileanu , Fabio Bacchini , Rony Keppens , Stefaan Poedts

We investigate how coronal mass ejections (CMEs) propagate through, and interact with, the inner heliosphere between the Sun and Earth, a key question in CME research and space weather forecasting. CME Sun-to-Earth kinematics are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ying D. Liu , Janet G. Luhmann , Noé Lugaz , Christian Möstl , Jackie A. Davies , Stuart D. Bale , Robert P. Lin

The thermodynamics of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) is often described using a polytropic process. Estimating the polytopic index ($\gamma$) allows us to quantify the expansion or compression of the ICME plasma arising from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Debesh Bhattacharjee , Saikat Majumder , Prasad Subramanian

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) cause disturbances in the environment of the Earth when they arrive at the Earth. However, the prediction of the arrival of CMEs still remains a challenge. We have developed an interplanetary scintillation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Kazumasa Iwai , Daikou Shiota , Munetoshi Tokumaru , Kenichi Fujiki , Mitsue Den , Yûki Kubo

Geomagnetic storms are an important aspect of space weather and can result in significant impacts on space- and ground-based assets. The majority of strong storms are associated with the passage of interplanetary coronal mass ejections…

We present a refined statistical analysis based on interplanetary coronal mass ejections as well as co-rotating interaction regions for the time period 2003-2015 to estimate the impact of different solar wind types on the geomagnetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Sandro Krauss , Manuela Temmer , Susanne Vennerstroem

As an important source for large geomagnetic storms, an "ICME-in-sheath" is a completely shocked interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) stuck in the sheath between a shock and host ejecta. Typical characteristics are identified from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Ying D. Liu , Chong Chen , Xiaowei Zhao

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are a significant feature of the heliospheric environment and the primary cause of adverse space weather at the Earth. ICME propagation, and the evolution of ICME magnetic field structure during…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 S. W. Good , E. K. J. Kilpua , A. T. LaMoury , R. J. Forsyth , J. P. Eastwood , C. Möstl

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) have complex magnetic and density structures, which is the result of their interaction with the structured solar wind and with previous eruptions. ICMEs are revealed by in situ measurements and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-06 N. Lugaz , I. I. Roussev

Aims. The space radiation environment conditions and the maximum expected coronal mass ejection (CME) speed are being assessed through the investigation of scaling laws between the peak proton flux and fluence of Solar Energetic Particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Athanasios Papaioannou , Konstantin Herbst , Tobias Ramm , David Lario , Astrid M. Veronig

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the main driver of Space Weather. Therefore, a precise forecasting of their likely geo-effectiveness relies on an accurate tracking of their morphological and kinematical evolution throughout the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Nieves-Chinchilla , A. Vourlidas , G. Stenborg , N. P. Savani , A. Koval , A. Szabo , L. K. Jian

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are one of the primary drivers of extreme space weather. They are large eruptions of mass and magnetic field from the solar corona and can travel the distance between Sun and Earth in half a day to a few days.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Talwinder Singh , Mehmet S. Yalim , Nikolai V. Pogorelov , Nat Gopalswamy

Solar Orbiter observed an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) event at 0.8 AU on 2020 April 19. The ICME was also observed by Wind at 1 AU on 2020 April 20. An interplanetary shock wave was driven in front of the ICME. We focus on…

We carry out a numerical simulation depicting the effects of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) event on a close-in giant planet in an extrasolar system. We drive the CME in a similar manner as in simulations of space weather events on Earth.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 O. Cohen , V. L. Kashyap , J. J. Drake , I. V. Sokolov , T. I. Gombosi

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