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Currently, achieving a balance between computational efficiency, accuracy, and numerical stability in CME simulations, particularly in the sub-Alfv{'e}nic coronal region, remains a significant challenge. This paper aims to address the…

Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) are the primary sources of geomagnetic storms at Earth. Negative out-of-ecliptic component (Bz) of magnetic field in the ICME or its associated sheath region is necessary for it to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Talwinder Singh , Dinesha V. Hegde , Tae K. Kim , Nikolai V. Pogorelov

Solar filament eruptions play a crucial role in triggering coronal mass ejections (CMEs). More than 80 % of eruptions lead to a CME. This correlation has been studied extensively during the past solar cycles and the last long solar minimum.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Schmieder , P. Demoulin , G. Aulanier

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and eruptive flares (EFs) are the most energetic explosions in the solar system. Their underlying origin is the free energy that builds up slowly in the sheared magnetic field of a filament channel. We report…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-03 Joel T. Dahlin , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore

Solar eruptions arise from instabilities or loss of equilibria in the solar atmosphere, but routinely inferring the precise magnetic and plasma properties that lead to eruptions is not currently practical using synoptic solar observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Lucas A. Tarr , N. Dylan Kee , James E. Leake , Mark G. Linton , Peter W. Schuck

Recent Solar Dynamic Observatory observations reveal that coronal mass ejections (CMEs) consist of a multi-temperature structure: a hot flux rope and a cool leading front (LF). The flux rope first appears as a twisted hot channel in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , D. M. Ding , Y. Liu , W. Poomvises

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) play a decisive role in driving space weather, especially, the fast ones (e.g., with speeds above $800$~km~s$^{-1}$). Understanding the trigger mechanisms of fast CMEs can help us gaining important information…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Peng Zou , Chaowei Jiang , Fengsi Wei , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

We investigate the magnetic origin of the coronal mass ejection (CME) that occurred on November 28, 2023, at 19:50UT from active region (AR) 13500 located near the solar disk-center. The eruption was associated with an S-shaped sigmoidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 P. Vemareddy , S. Nair , S. Gosain

We present a method of conducting data-driven simulations of solar active regions and flux emergence with the MURaM radiative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code. The horizontal electric field derived from the full velocity and magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Feng Chen , Mark C. M. Cheung , Matthias Rempel , Georgios Chintzoglou

Magnetic flux ropes are a bundle of twisted magnetic field lines produced by internal electric currents, which are responsible for solar eruptions and are the major drivers of geomagnetic storms. As such, it is crucial to develop a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 J. H. Guo , Y. W. Ni , Y. Guo , C. Xia , B. Schmieder , S. Poedts , Z. Zhong , Y. H. Zhou , F. Yu , P. F. Chen

Theoretically, CME kinematics are related to magnetic reconnection processes in the solar corona. However, the current quantitative understanding of this relationship is based on the analysis of only a handful of events. Here we report a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Chunming Zhu , Jiong Qiu , Paulett Liewer , Angelos Vourlidas , Michael Spiegel , Qiang Hu

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

Two major processes have been proposed to convert the coronal magnetic energy into the kinetic energy of a coronal mass ejection (CME): resistive magnetic reconnection and ideal macroscopic magnetohydrodynamic instability of magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Q. Song , Y. Chen , D. D. Ye , G. Q. Han , G. H. Du , G. Li , J. Zhang , Q. Hu

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from pseudostreamers represent a significant fraction of large-scale eruptions from the Sun. In some cases, these CMEs take a narrow jet-like form reminiscent of coronal jets; in others, they have a much…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 P. F. Wyper , B. J. Lynch , C. R. DeVore , P. Kumar , S. K. Antiochos , L. K. S. Daldorff

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are the most energetic expulsions of magnetized plasma from the Sun that play a crucial role in space weather dynamics. This study investigates the diverse kinematics and thermodynamic evolution of two CMEs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Soumyaranjan Khuntia , Wageesh Mishra , Sudheer K Mishra , Yuming Wang , Jie Zhang , Shaoyu Lyu

Filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections are physical phenomena related to magnetic flux ropes carrying electric current. A magnetic flux rope is a key structure for solar eruptions, and when it carries a southward magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Brigitte Schmieder , Jinhan Guo , Stefaan Poedts

We present first results of the hybrid data-driven magnetofrictional (MF) and data-constrained magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of solar active region NOAA 11158, which produced an X-class flare and coronal mass ejection on 2011…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 A. Afanasyev , Y. Fan , M. Kazachenko , M. Cheung

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

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

The morphology and heliospheric impact of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are strongly shaped by their preeruptive magnetic configuration and surrounding coronal environment, yet these influences remain difficult to constrain observationally.…