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STEREO In-situ Measurements of Particles and CME Transients (IMPACT)

IMPACT is one of the STEREO mission's four measurement packages whose principal objective is to understand the origin and consequences of coronal mass ejections (CME's).

Launch Date

October 2006

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IMPACT is one of the STEREO mission's four measurement packages whose principal objective is to understand the origin and consequences of coronal mass ejections (CME's). CME's are the most energetic eruptions on the Sun. They are responsible for essentially all of the largest solar geomagnetic storms. In order to understand and forecast CME's, we need 3-Dimensional images of them and of the ambient solar corona and heliosphere.

Related Publications

2024. "CME-associated type-IV radio bursts: The solar paradigm and the unique case of AD Leo.", Proceedings of the IAUS 388, [10.48550/arXiv.2410.00787] [Proceedings]

2024. "A catalog of multi-vantage point observations of type-II bursts: Statistics and correlations.", Proceedings of the IAUS388, 5 [10.48550/arXiv.2410] [Proceedings]