CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Ace Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20021500132
Observation time: 05/30/2002 150.06422 0132 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2002
Fractional day of year 150.064225
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 5549.0 ± 26.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 0.038
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 0.006
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -0.001
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0039
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0040
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 23.27, 30.57, 34.27
Event added to database
Sun May 1 22:22:32 2005
Event last processed
Tue May 3 14:26:54 2005
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
0.004 ± 0.001

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -461.6 ± 1.4 -498.2 ± 5.5
Vy GSE [km/s] -12.5 ± 2.3 18.0 ± 7.9
Vz GSE [km/s] -22.3 ± 2.4 -82.2 ± 6.3
Wi [km/s] 39.5 ± 0.7 53.0 ± 2.8
We [km/s] 1250.6 ± 21.3 1677.0 ± 88.4
Ni [n/cc] 2.1 ± 0.0 3.7 ± 0.3
Bx GSE [nT] -3.7 ± 0.1 -7.5 ± 0.7
By GSE [nT] 1.3 ± 0.2 -0.2 ± 0.5
Bz GSE [nT] 1.3 ± 0.1 3.5 ± 0.3
Plasma Beta
0.409 ± 0.416
0.335 ± 0.310
Sound Speed [km/s]
51.06 ± 0.87
68.46 ± 3.61
Alfven Speed [km/s]
61.90 ± 1.45
94.08 ± 11.50

Best values of shock front normal for each method (About, Top)

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.425 ± 0.066 0.901 ± 0.033 -0.084 ± 0.084 -4.82 ± 7.62 115.23 ± 4.17
VC -0.485 ± 0.087 0.396 ± 0.089 -0.780 ± 0.560 -51.24 ± 6.19 140.73 ± 8.43
MX1 -0.585 ± 0.074 0.418 ± 0.079 -0.695 ± 0.552 -44.00 ± 5.74 144.45 ± 6.59
MX2 -0.583 ± 0.071 0.385 ± 0.081 -0.716 ± 0.557 -45.71 ± 5.01 146.54 ± 7.21
MX3 -0.581 ± 0.072 0.358 ± 0.087 -0.731 ± 0.559 -46.99 ± 4.70 148.33 ± 8.03
RH08 -0.464 ± 0.007 0.586 ± 0.006 -0.665 ± 0.543 -41.67 ± 0.49 128.36 ± 0.58
RH09 -0.409 ± 0.048 0.827 ± 0.034 -0.385 ± 0.365 -22.67 ± 4.16 116.32 ± 3.19
RH10 -0.431 ± 0.061 0.767 ± 0.044 -0.475 ± 0.435 -28.35 ± 4.08 119.33 ± 4.42
Average -0.495 0.580 -0.566 -35.681 132.410
Median -0.464 0.586 -0.665 -41.667 140.725
Deviation 0.076 0.223 0.238 15.816 14.185

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 50.4 ± 2.3 295.5 ± 31.0 1.74 ± 0.17
VC 71.8 ± 2.1 415.5 ± 28.7 1.74 ± 0.17
MX1 64.1 ± 2.1 456.6 ± 30.3 1.74 ± 0.17
MX2 65.4 ± 2.1 456.3 ± 29.9 1.74 ± 0.17
MX3 66.3 ± 2.1 456.7 ± 29.7 1.74 ± 0.17
RH08 67.1 ± 2.2 393.9 ± 30.1 1.74 ± 0.17
RH09 59.7 ± 2.3 331.3 ± 31.0 1.74 ± 0.17
RH10 61.5 ± 2.3 354.9 ± 31.0 1.74 ± 0.17
Average 63.3 395.1 1.74
Median 65.4 415.5 1.74
Deviation 6.3 62.5 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 108.8 ± 1.6 26.6 ± 0.3 39.4 ± 0.9 75.7 ± 1.1 4.09 ± 0.09 1.44 ± 0.03
VC 179.3 ± 2.1 12.5 ± 0.2 19.4 ± 0.5 79.3 ± 1.2 14.39 ± 0.27 2.26 ± 0.05
MX1 176.1 ± 1.9 17.6 ± 0.2 27.0 ± 0.6 78.3 ± 1.1 10.00 ± 0.18 2.25 ± 0.05
MX2 176.3 ± 2.0 16.8 ± 0.2 25.8 ± 0.6 78.5 ± 1.1 10.50 ± 0.19 2.25 ± 0.05
MX3 176.8 ± 2.0 16.2 ± 0.2 24.9 ± 0.6 78.6 ± 1.2 10.95 ± 0.20 2.25 ± 0.05
RH8 172.4 ± 1.9 15.6 ± 0.2 24.1 ± 0.6 78.7 ± 1.2 11.02 ± 0.21 2.19 ± 0.05
RH9 144.2 ± 1.7 20.6 ± 0.3 31.2 ± 0.7 77.6 ± 1.1 7.01 ± 0.14 1.86 ± 0.04
RH10 154.8 ± 1.8 19.4 ± 0.2 29.6 ± 0.7 77.9 ± 1.1 7.99 ± 0.16 1.99 ± 0.04
Average 161.1 18.1 27.7 78.1 9.5 2.1
Median 176.1 17.6 27.0 78.5 10.5 2.2
Deviation 24.6 4.2 6.0 1.1 3.1 0.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 60.8 ± 7.5 36.9 ± 1.5 59.9 ± 7.3 110.6 ± 8.8 1.65 ± 0.24 0.55 ± 0.09
VC 102.8 ± 4.0 17.4 ± 0.7 29.4 ± 3.6 115.3 ± 8.7 5.93 ± 0.41 0.90 ± 0.09
MX1 100.4 ± 4.1 24.5 ± 1.0 41.1 ± 5.0 114.0 ± 8.7 4.10 ± 0.30 0.89 ± 0.09
MX2 100.4 ± 4.1 23.4 ± 1.0 39.2 ± 4.8 114.2 ± 8.7 4.30 ± 0.32 0.88 ± 0.09
MX3 100.9 ± 4.1 22.5 ± 0.9 37.8 ± 4.6 114.4 ± 8.7 4.49 ± 0.33 0.89 ± 0.09
RH8 97.8 ± 4.3 21.8 ± 0.9 36.7 ± 4.5 114.6 ± 8.7 4.49 ± 0.34 0.86 ± 0.09
RH9 80.9 ± 5.9 28.6 ± 1.2 47.5 ± 5.8 113.0 ± 8.7 2.83 ± 0.28 0.72 ± 0.09
RH10 87.2 ± 5.4 27.0 ± 1.1 44.9 ± 5.5 113.5 ± 8.7 3.24 ± 0.29 0.77 ± 0.09
Average 91.4 25.3 42.1 113.7 3.9 0.8
Median 100.4 24.5 41.1 114.2 4.3 0.9
Deviation 14.6 5.8 9.0 1.4 1.3 0.1

Survey interval (About, Top)
Survey of solar wind interval
Selected data (About, Top)
Key plasma parameters
Survey
Velocity
V

Magnetic Field
B


Simple Methods (About, Top)
Simple methods
Rankine Chi^2 Contour (About, Top)

Chisq


Shock Speed (About, Top)
Shock Speed

Theta Bn (About, Top)
Theta Bn

Mach Numbers (About, Top)

Upstream wave speeds
Upstream Mach numbers
Downsteam wave speeds
Downstream mach numbers
Page updated Mon Apr 13 08:55:21 2009
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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