An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Relating to, formed by, characterized by, or producing → eruption.

→ eruption; → -ive.

An astronomical object such as a → variable star, a → nova, a → young stellar object, etc. characterized by abrupt changes of luminosity.

→ eruptive; → object.

A huge solar prominence which has previously been quiescent but suddenly starts to lift up from the → photosphere with velocities of several hundred km/s and escapes into the → interplanetary space. Eruptive prominences with the highest velocities have been observed at 1300 km/s, reaching heights of 1 million km above the photosphere. Such prominences are often observed at the solar limb, in association with → coronal mass ejections. On the Sun's disk, the equivalent phenomenon is an eruptive filament.

→ eruptive; → prominence

same as → cataclysmic variable.

→ eruptive; → variable.