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 origin, early evolution and predictability of solar eruptions

LM Green, T Török, B Vršnak, W Manchester IV… - Space Science …, 2018‏ - Springer
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were discovered in the early 1970s when space-borne
coronagraphs revealed that eruptions of plasma are ejected from the Sun. Today, it is known …

Origin and structures of solar eruptions I: magnetic flux rope

X Cheng, Y Guo, MD Ding - Science China Earth Sciences, 2017‏ - Springer
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar flares are the large-scale and most energetic
eruptive phenomena in our solar system and able to release a large quantity of plasma and …

Forecasting the structure and orientation of earthbound coronal mass ejections

EKJ Kilpua, N Lugaz, ML Mays, M Temmer - Space Weather, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are the key drivers of strong to extreme space
weather storms at the Earth that can have drastic consequences for technological systems in …

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 …

Small-scale magnetic islands in the solar wind and their role in particle acceleration. II. Particle energization inside magnetically confined cavities

OV Khabarova, GP Zank, G Li… - The Astrophysical …, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the role of heliospheric magnetic field configurations and conditions that favor
the generation and confinement of small-scale magnetic islands associated with atypical …

Unexpected major geomagnetic storm caused by faint eruption of a solar trans-equatorial flux rope

W Teng, Y Su, H Ji, Q Zhang - Nature Communications, 2024‏ - nature.com
Some geomagnetic storms' solar origins are ambiguous, making them hard to predict. On
March 23, 2023, a severe geomagnetic storm occurred, however, forecasts based on remote …

ICME evolution in the inner heliosphere: Invited review

JG Luhmann, N Gopalswamy, LK Jian, N Lugaz - Solar Physics, 2020‏ - Springer
ICMEs (interplanetary coronal mass ejections), the heliospheric counterparts of what is
observed with coronagraphs at the Sun as CMEs, have been the subject of intense interest …

Causality in heliophysics: Magnetic fields as a bridge between the Sun's interior and the Earth's space environment

D Nandy, Y Baruah, P Bhowmik, S Dash… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Our host star, the Sun, is a middle-aged main sequence G type star whose activity varies.
These variations are primarily governed by solar magnetic fields which are produced in the …

A database of flare ribbon properties from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. I. Reconnection flux

MD Kazachenko, BJ Lynch, BT Welsch… - The Astrophysical …, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present a database of 3137 solar flare ribbon events corresponding to every flare of
GOES class C1. 0 and greater within 45 from the central meridian, from 2010 April until 2016 …