Coronal mass ejections and their sheath regions in interplanetary space

E Kilpua, HEJ Koskinen, TI Pulkkinen - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2017 - Springer
Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are large-scale heliospheric transients that
originate from the Sun. When an ICME is sufficiently faster than the preceding solar wind, a …

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 …

Near-Sun In Situ and Remote-sensing Observations of a Coronal Mass Ejection and its Effect on the Heliospheric Current Sheet

OM Romeo, CR Braga, ST Badman… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
During the thirteenth encounter of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission, the spacecraft
traveled through a topologically complex interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) …

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 …

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 …

A Quarter Century of Wind Spacecraft Discoveries

LB Wilson III, AL Brosius, N Gopalswamy… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Wind spacecraft, launched on November 1, 1994, is a critical element in NASA's
Heliophysics System Observatory (HSO)—a fleet of spacecraft created to understand the …

Parker solar probe in situ observations of magnetic reconnection exhausts during encounter 1

TD Phan, SD Bale, JP Eastwood… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic reconnection in current sheets converts magnetic energy into particle energy. The
process may play an important role in the acceleration and heating of the solar wind close to …

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 …

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 …

Parker Solar Probe Observations of Solar Wind Energetic Proton Beams Produced by Magnetic Reconnection in the Near‐Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet

TD Phan, JL Verniero, D Larson… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We report observations of reconnection exhausts in the Heliospheric Current Sheet (HCS)
during Parker Solar Probe Encounters 08 and 07, at 16 Rs and 20 Rs, respectively …