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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are massive expulsions of magnetised plasma from a star, and are the largest contributors to space weather in the Solar System. CMEs are theorized to play a key role in planetary atmospheric erosion, especially…

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are solar eruptions of plasma and magnetic fields that significantly impact Space Weather, causing disruptions in technological systems and potential damage to power grids when directed towards Earth.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Shantanu Jain , Tatiana Podladchikova , Galina Chikunova , Karin Dissauer , Astrid M. Veronig

The instrument payload of the future Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will span a wide range of wavelengths, including the ultraviolet (UV) region that cannot be easily accessed from the ground (< 350 nm). Along with its primary mission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-11 Richard J. Cartwright , Lynnae Quick , Marc Neveu , Tracy M. Becker , Ujjwal Raut , Julie Castillo-Rogez , Kate L. Craft , Geronimo L. Villanueva

This study entails the fourth part of a global flare energetics project, in which the mass $m_{\mathrm{cme}}$, kinetic energy $E_{\mathrm{kin}}$, and the gravitational potential energy $E_{\mathrm{grav}}$ of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Markus J. Aschwanden

The spectra of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the low corona play a crucial role in understanding their origins and physical mechanism, and enhancing space weather forecasting. However, capturing these spectra faces significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Lami Chan , Xianyong Bai , Hui Tian , Yufei Feng , Yu Xu , Tibor Török , Yuhang Gao , Tanmoy Samanta , Zheng Sun

Searching for signs of life is a primary goal of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). However, merely detecting oxygen, methane, or other widely discussed biosignatures is insufficient evidence for a biosphere. In parallel with…

A goal of the future Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is to directly image and spectroscopically characterize true Earth-analogs. However, if a large fraction of HWO target stars host unknown dynamically disruptive giant planets in their…

We present results from a set of numerical simulations aimed at exploring the mechanism of coronal mass ejection (CME) suppression in active stars by an overlying large-scale magnetic field. We use a state-of-the-art 3D magnetohydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Julián D. Alvarado-Gómez , Jeremy J. Drake , Ofer Cohen , Sofia P. Moschou , Cecilia Garraffo

We present a detailed study of an earth-directed coronal mass ejection (Full halo CME) event happened on 2011 February 15 making use of white light observations by three coronagraphs and radio observations by Wind/WAVES. We applied three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Lei Lu , Bernd Inhester , Li Feng , Siming Liu , Xinhua Zhao

Investigating the heliospheric evolution and consequences of Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is critical to understanding the solar-terrestrial relationship. For the first time, Heliospheric Imagers (HIs) onboard STEREO, providing multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-22 Wageesh Mishra

The arrival time of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the vicinity of the Earth is one of the most important parameters in determining space weather. We have used a new approach to predicting this parameter. First, in our study, we have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-08 Anitha Ravishankar , Grzegorz Michałek

The Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 highlights the importance of advancing research focused on discovering and characterizing habitable worlds. In line with this priority, our goal is to investigate how planetary systems…

The search for technosignatures--remotely detectable evidence of extraterrestrial technology--draws upon examples from the recent history of Earth as well as projections of Earth's technosphere. Facilities like the Habitable Worlds…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Jacob Haqq-Misra , Ravi Kopparapu , George Profitiliotis

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are subject to changes in their direction of propagation, tilt, and other properties as they interact with the variable solar wind. We investigated the heliospheric propagation of 15 Earth-impacting CMEs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Sandeep Kumar , Nandita Srivastava , Nat Gopalswamy , Ashutosh Dash

The highest priority recommendation of the Astro2020 Decadal Survey for space-based astronomy was the construction of an observatory capable of characterizing habitable worlds. In this paper series we explore the detectability of and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Mary Anne Limbach , Jacob Lustig-Yaeger , Andrew Vanderburg , Johanna M. Vos , Rene Heller , Tyler D. Robinson

A primary goal of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is to detect and measure the abundance of biosignature molecules, such as water (H2O) and oxygen (O2), in the atmosphere of Earth analogs. This is expected to require deep…

We assess archival high-energy data for key stars on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) Target Stars and Systems 2025 list, as stellar radiation is critical to shaping and interpreting planetary atmospheres. Using a sample of 98 nearby…

Coronal Mass ejections or CMEs are large dynamical solar-corona events. The mass balance and kinematics of a fast limb CME, including its prominence progenitor and the associated flare, will be compared with computed magnetic structures to…

The shape and dynamics of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) vary significantly based on the instrument and wavelength used. This has led to significant debate about the proper definitions of CME/shock fronts, pile-up/compression regions, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Oleg Stepanyuk , Kamen Kozarev

We present a statistical analysis of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) imaged by the Heliospheric Imager (HI) instruments aboard NASAs twin-spacecraft STEREO mission between April 2007 and August 2017 for STEREO-A and between April 2007 and…