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Coronal mass ejection

The birth of a solar eruption

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A sophisticated model of the birth and early evolution of coronal mass ejections could lead to better forecast of the 'weather' in space.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Stefaan Poedts is at the Centrum voor mathematische Plasma-Astrofysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 B, 3001 Leuven, Belgium,

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