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Motivated by the need to improve the ability to forecast whether a certain coronal mass ejection (CME) is to impact Earth, and by the insufficiency of statistical studies that analyze the whole erupting system with the focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 M. V. Sieyra , M. Cécere , H. Cremades , F. A. Iglesias , A. Sahade , M. Mierla , G. Stenborg , A. Costa , M. West , E. D'Huys

The Sun's outer atmosphere is heated to temperatures of millions of degrees, and solar plasma flows out into interplanetary space at supersonic speeds. This paper reviews our current understanding of these interrelated problems: coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Steven R. Cranmer , Sarah E. Gibson , Pete Riley

Small-scale eruptions could play an important role in coronal heating, generation of solar energetic particles (SEPs), and mass source of the solar wind. However, they are poorly observed, and their characteristics, distributions, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , Xiaowei Zhao , Huidong Hu

We report on the closest view of a coronal mass ejection observed by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP)/Wide-field Imager for {Parker} Solar PRobe (WISPR) instrument on September 05, 2022, when PSP was traversing from a distance of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Ritesh Patel , Matthew J. West , Daniel B. Seaton , Phillip Hess , Tatiana Niembro , Katharine K. Reeves

The High Inclination Solar Mission (HISM) is a concept for an out-of-the-ecliptic mission for observing the Sun and the heliosphere. The mission profile is largely based on the Solar Polar Imager concept: initially spiraling in to a 0.48 AU…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-08 K. Kobayashi , L. Johnson , H. Thomas , S. McIntosh , D. McKenzie , J. Newmark , A. Heaton , J. Carr , M. Baysinger , Q. Bean , L. Fabisinski , P. Capizzo , K. Clements , S. Sutherlin , J. Garcia , K. Medina , D. Turse

How and where are coronal loops rooted in the solar lower atmosphere? The details of the magnetic environment and its evolution at the footpoints of coronal loops are crucial to understanding the processes of mass and energy supply to the…

We investigate the source eruption, propagation and expansion characteristics, and heliospheric impacts of the 2020 November 29 coronal mass ejection (CME) and associated shock, using remote sensing and in situ observations from multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Chong Chen , Ying D. Liu , Bei Zhu

Major solar eruptive events (SEEs), consisting of both a large flare and a near simultaneous large fast coronal mass ejection (CME), are the most powerful explosions and also the most powerful and energetic particle accelerators in the…

The solar corona below 10 solar radii is an important region for early acceleration and transport of solar energetic particles (SEPs) by coronal mass ejection-driven shock waves. There, these waves propagate into a highly variable dynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Kamen Kozarev , Mohamed Nedal , Rositsa Miteva , Momchil Dechev , Pietro Zucca

We report on the Balloonborne Investigation of Temperature and Speed of Electrons in the corona (BITSE) mission launched recently to observe the solar corona from about 3 Rs to 15 Rs at four wavelengths (393.5, 405.0, 398.7, and 423.4 nm).…

We report on a study of the Multiview Observatory for Solar Terrestrial Science (MOST) mission that will provide comprehensive imagery and time series data needed to understand the magnetic connection between the solar interior and the…

NASA's Parker Solar Probe (Parker) spacecraft reached its first perihelion of 35.7 solar radii on November 5th, 2018. To aid in mission planning, and in anticipation of the unprecedented measurements to be returned, in late October, we…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Pete Riley , Cooper Downs , Jon A. Linker , Zoran Mikic , Roberto Lionello , Ronald M. Caplan

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are thought to drive collisionless shocks in the solar corona, which in turn have been shown capable of accelerating solar energetic particles (SEPs) in minutes. It has been notoriously difficult to extract…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kamen A. Kozarev , John C. Raymond , Vasili V. Lobzin , Michael Hammer

The solar corona is full of dynamic phenomena, e.g., solar flares, micro flares in active regions, jets in coronal holes and in the polar regions, X-ray bright points in quiet regions, etc. They are accompanied by interesting physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Shin-nosuke Ishikawa , Tomoko Kawate , Shinsuke Imada , Taro Sakao

One of the many outcomes of the Solar Orbiter mission is the evidence for the solar atmosphere being filled by highly impulsive bursts, down to about 200 km scale: the limit of the EUV instruments' spatial resolution. Small-scale events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Susanna Parenti

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large eruptions from the Sun that propagate through the heliosphere after launch. Observational studies of these transient phenomena are usually based on 2D images of the Sun, corona, and heliosphere…

Stealth coronal mass ejection (CMEs) are eruptions from the Sun that are not associated with appreciable low-coronal signatures. Because they often cannot be linked to a well-defined source region on the Sun, analysis of their initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 Erika Palmerio , Christina Kay , Nada Al-Haddad , Benjamin J. Lynch , Wenyuan Yu , Michael L. Stevens , Sanchita Pal , Christina O. Lee

The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is a NASA observatory designed to discover and characterize near-Earth asteroids and comets. The mission's primary objective is to find the majority of objects large enough to cause severe…

Magnetic reconnection is a key mechanism involved in solar eruptions and is also a prime possibility to heat the low corona to millions of degrees. Here, we present ultra-high-resolution extreme ultraviolet observations of persistent…

The physical processes, which drive powerful solar eruptions, play an important role in our understanding of the Sun-Earth connection. In this Special Issue, we firstly discuss how magnetic fields emerge from the solar interior to the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Vasilis Archontis , Loukas Vlahos