M. J. Koomen

TL;DR: The Large Angle Spectroscopic Coronagraph (LASCO) is a triple coronagraph being jointly developed for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Large Angle Spectroscopic Coronagraph (LASCO) is a three coronagraph package which has been jointly developed for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission by the Naval Research Laboratory (USA), the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale (France), the Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie (Germany), and the University of Birmingham (UK) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tracked the birth and outflow of 50-100 of the most prominent moving coronal features and found that they originate about 3-4 R☉ from Sun center as radially elongated structures above the cusps of helmet streamers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the properties of all the 841 coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed by the SOHO Large Angle Spectroscopic Coronagraph (LASCO) C2 and C3 white-light coronagraphs from January 1996 through June 1998, and compare those properties to previous observations by other similar instruments.

TL;DR: An overview of observations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) during the interval March 28, 1979 through December 31, 1981 is presented in this paper, where an introduction is provided to the instrument used in the observations, the method of identifying CMEs, the concepts of CME structural classes, CME importance categories, and the distribution of mass ejection among these classes and categories.