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Understanding coronal mass ejection (CME) energetics and dynamics has been a long-standing problem, and although previous observational estimates have been made, such studies have been hindered by large uncertainties in CME mass. Here, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Eoin P. Carley , R. T. James McAteer , Peter T. Gallagher

Solar Energetic Particles (SEP) are an integral part of the physical processes related with Space Weather. We present a review for the acceleration mechanisms related to the explosive phenomena (flares and/or CMEs) inside the solar corona.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Loukas Vlahos , Anastasios Anastasiadis , Athanasios Papaioannou , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Heinz Isliker

We report the evolution of magnetic field and its energy in NOAA active region 11158 over 5 days based on a vector magnetogram series from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO). Fast flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-30 Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Thomas Wiegelmann , Keiji Hayashi , Qingrong Chen , Julia Thalmann

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), powerful solar eruptions with massive plasma ejected into the interplanetary space, are caused by the release of the magnetic free enengy stored in coronal electric currents. Photospheric current helicity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Zheng Sun , Ting Li , Xinkai Bian , Yijun Hou , Ioannis Kontogiannis , Ziqi Wu

In this Letter, we perform a detailed analysis of the M5.5-class eruptive flare occurring in active region 12929 on 2022 January 20. The eruption of a hot channel generates a fast coronal mass ejection (CME) and a dome-shaped…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Qingmin Zhang , Chuan Li , Dong Li , Ye Qiu , Yanjie Zhang , Yiwei Ni

We explore the processes of repetitive build-up and explosive release of magnetic energy together with the formation of magnetic flux ropes that eventually resulted into three homologous eruptive flares of successively increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Suraj Sahu , Bhuwan Joshi , Avijeet Prasad , Kyung-Suk Cho

This paper aims to track the 3D evolution of a full halo CME on 2011 June 21. The CME results from a non-radial eruption of a filament-carrying flux rope in NOAA active region 11236. The eruption is observed in EUV wavelengths by the EUVI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Q. M. Zhang

We study the solar sources of an intense geomagnetic storm of solar cycle 23 that occurred on 20 November 2003, based on ground- and space-based multiwavelength observations. The coronal mass ejections (CMEs) responsible for the above…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pankaj Kumar , P. K. Manoharan , Wahab Uddin

On 2012 September 30 - October 1 the Earth underwent a two-step geomagnetic storm. We examine the Sun-to-Earth characteristics of the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) responsible for the geomagnetic storm with combined heliospheric imaging and…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Ying D. Liu , Zhongwei Yang , Rui Wang , Janet G. Luhmann , John D. Richardson , Noé Lugaz

Aims. We studied the first multi-spacecraft high-energy solar energetic particle (SEP) event of solar cycle 25, which triggered a ground level enhancement (GLE) on 28 October 2021, using data from multiple observers that were widely…

The dynamic process of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the heliosphere provides us the key information for evaluating CMEs' geo-effectiveness and improving the accurate prediction of CME induced Shock Arrival Time (SAT) at the Earth. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 Fang Shen , Chenglong Shen , Jie Zhang , Phillip Hess , Yuming Wang , Xueshang Feng , Hongze Cheng , Yi Yang

The solar active region NOAA 12887 produced a strong X1.0 flare on 2021 October 28, which exhibits X-shaped flare ribbons and a circle-shaped erupting filament. To understand the eruption process with these characteristics, we conducted a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Daiki Yamasaki , Satoshi Inoue , Yumi Bamba , Jeongwoo Lee , Haimin Wang

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the main drivers of disturbances in the solar heliosphere because they propagate and interact with the magnetic field of the solar wind. It is crucial to investigate the evolution of CMEs and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Tinatin Baratashvili , Emma Davies , Eva Weiler , Brigitte Schmieder , Pascal Démoulin , Stefaan Poedts

We address the problem of how particles that are accelerated by solar flares can escape promptly into the heliosphere, on time scales of an hour or less. Impulsive solar energetic particles (SEP) bursts are generally observed in association…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sophie Masson , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Rick DeVore

We aim to better characterize the conditions of the solar corona, especially with respect to the occurrence of confined and eruptive flares. In this work, we model the coronal evolution around 231 large flares observed during solar cycle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Julia K. Thalmann , Manu Gupta , Astrid M. Veronig , Yang Liu

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are eruptive events that cause a solar-type star to shed mass and magnetic flux. CMEs tend to occur together with flares, radio storms, and bursts of energetic particles. On the Sun, CME-related mass loss is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Steven R. Cranmer

We present both coronal and chromospheric observations of large-scale disturbances associated with a major solar eruption on 2005 September 7. In GOES/SXI, arclike coronal brightenings are recorded propagating in the southern hemisphere.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Weiguo Zong , Yu Dai

In this paper, we analyze the full evolution, from a few days prior to the eruption to the initiation, and the final acceleration and propagation, of the CME that occurred on 2008 April 26 using the unprecedented high cadence and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , J. Zhang

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

We study the solar energetic particle (SEP) event associated with the 2012 July 23 extreme solar storm, for which STEREO and the spacecraft at L1 provide multi-point remote sensing and in situ observations. The extreme solar storm, with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Bei Zhu , Ying D. Liu , Janet G. Luhmann , Huidong Hu , Rui Wang , Zhongwei Yang