G. M. Simnett

TL;DR: The Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) as discussed by the authors was the first of a new class of helio-spheric and astronomical white-light imager, which operates in a fashion similar to coronagraphs, in that it observes solar photospheric white light that has been Thomson scattered by free electrons in the solar wind plasma.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between prominence eruptions and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) was investigated using LASCO and EIT data. But the authors found that the prominence eruption is not generally the cause of the associated CME, but that it is more probable that the destabilisation of the CME in fact releases the constraints on the prominence, causing it to erupt.

TL;DR: The time evolution of the Hα surges, Civ brightenings and X-ray spikes leads to the conclusion that the energy source is in the corona, from magnetic reconnection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use three observed coronal mass ejection (CME) events and numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulation models to illustrate three distinct CME initiation processes: (1) streamer destabilization due to increase of currents, via increase of axial fields, of the flux-rope, (2) photospheric shear and (3) plasma flow induced CME.

TL;DR: In this paper, the University of Birmingham has designed, fabricated, qualified and calibrated the Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) to be flown on the Coriolis spacecraft.