Earth-affecting solar transients: a review of progresses in solar cycle 24

J Zhang, M Temmer, N Gopalswamy… - Progress in Earth and …, 2021 - Springer
This review article summarizes the advancement in the studies of Earth-affecting solar
transients in the last decade that encompasses most of solar cycle 24. It is a part of the effort …

The physical processes of CME/ICME evolution

W Manchester, EKJ Kilpua, YD Liu, N Lugaz… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
As observed in Thomson-scattered white light, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are manifest
as large-scale expulsions of plasma magnetically driven from the corona in the most …

Understanding the Internal Magnetic Field Configurations of ICMEs Using More than 20 Years of Wind Observations

T Nieves-Chinchilla, A Vourlidas, JC Raymond… - Solar Physics, 2018 - Springer
The magnetic topology, structure, and geometry of the magnetic obstacles embedded within
interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are not yet fully and consistently described by …

On the magnetic flux budget in low-corona magnetic reconnection and interplanetary coronal mass ejections

J Qiu, Q Hu, TA Howard… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first quantitative comparison between the total magnetic reconnection flux in
the low corona in the wake of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the magnetic flux in …

Multispacecraft observation of magnetic cloud erosion by magnetic reconnection during propagation

A Ruffenach, B Lavraud, MJ Owens… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
During propagation, Magnetic Clouds (MC) interact with their environment and, in particular,
may reconnect with the solar wind around it, eroding away part of its initial magnetic flux …

Statistical study of magnetic cloud erosion by magnetic reconnection

A Ruffenach, B Lavraud, CJ Farrugia… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Several recent studies suggest that magnetic reconnection is able to erode substantial
amounts of the outer magnetic flux of interplanetary magnetic clouds (MCs) as they …

Generic magnetic field intensity profiles of interplanetary coronal mass ejections at Mercury, Venus, and Earth from superposed epoch analyses

M Janvier, RM Winslow, S Good… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We study interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) measured by probes at different
heliocentric distances (0.3–1 AU) to investigate the propagation of ICMEs in the inner …

Predicting the geoeffective properties of coronal mass ejections: current status, open issues and path forward

A Vourlidas, S Patsourakos… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Much progress has been made in the study of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), the main
drivers of terrestrial space weather thanks to the deployment of several missions in the last …

Magnetic flux ropes in the solar corona: structure and evolution toward eruption

R Liu - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic flux ropes are characterized by coherently twisted magnetic field lines, which are
ubiquitous in magnetized plasmas. As the core structure of various eruptive phenomena in …

Progressive transformation of a flux rope to an ICME: Comparative analysis using the direct and fitted expansion methods

S Dasso, MS Nakwacki, P Démoulin, CH Mandrini - Solar Physics, 2007 - Springer
The solar wind conditions at one astronomical unit (AU) can be strongly disturbed by
interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). A subset, called magnetic clouds (MCs), is …