CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: dscovr_data
Event ID: 20163140541
Observation time: 11/09/2016 314.23749 0541 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2016
Fractional day of year 314.237488
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 20519.0 ± 60.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 218.087
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -7.207
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 26.023
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0014
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0014
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0013
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0013
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 4.44, 23.63, 24.25
Event added to database
Wed Jul 19 06:48:45 2017
Event last processed
Tue Oct 24 13:07:00 2017
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
64.601 ± 2.482

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -296.5 ± 0.5 -327.5 ± 0.6
Vy GSE [km/s] -8.1 ± 1.4 -4.4 ± 1.0
Vz GSE [km/s] -10.9 ± 1.3 -3.4 ± 0.8
Wi [km/s] 17.7 ± 0.4 21.9 ± 0.3
We [km/s] 558.2 ± 11.1 693.3 ± 8.0
Ni [n/cc] 15.2 ± 0.4 33.5 ± 1.1
Bx GSE [nT] -0.2 ± 0.6 -0.5 ± 0.2
By GSE [nT] -4.2 ± 0.4 -7.4 ± 0.4
Bz GSE [nT] 0.6 ± 1.0 0.6 ± 0.6
Plasma Beta
0.530 ± 0.490
0.608 ± 0.605
Sound Speed [km/s]
22.79 ± 0.45
28.30 ± 0.33
Alfven Speed [km/s]
24.40 ± 1.51
28.30 ± 1.84

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.828 ± 0.376 -0.037 ± 0.594 0.559 ± 0.492 34.01 ± 38.44 182.54 ± 41.08
VC -0.966 ± 0.012 0.115 ± 0.051 0.232 ± 0.228 13.44 ± 2.61 173.22 ± 3.04
MX1 -0.960 ± 0.029 0.069 ± 0.247 0.271 ± 0.264 15.70 ± 4.99 175.90 ± 14.72
MX2 -0.970 ± 0.021 0.073 ± 0.219 0.233 ± 0.229 13.49 ± 3.00 175.67 ± 12.94
MX3 -0.976 ± 0.020 0.075 ± 0.204 0.204 ± 0.201 11.78 ± 3.57 175.58 ± 11.96
RH08 -0.988 ± 0.001 0.026 ± 0.010 0.151 ± 0.150 8.68 ± 0.37 178.50 ± 0.58
RH09 -0.929 ± 0.022 -0.190 ± 0.064 -0.318 ± 0.307 -18.57 ± 3.27 191.53 ± 3.95
RH10 -0.932 ± 0.024 -0.207 ± 0.064 -0.296 ± 0.287 -17.22 ± 3.87 192.53 ± 3.93
Average -0.944 -0.009 0.130 7.663 180.683
Median -0.960 0.069 0.232 13.441 178.496
Deviation 0.051 0.125 0.296 17.531 7.523

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 80.7 ± 13.4 293.8 ± 0.2 2.21 ± 0.08
VC 88.6 ± 10.3 341.3 ± 0.2 2.21 ± 0.08
MX1 88.5 ± 10.6 339.5 ± 0.2 2.21 ± 0.08
MX2 89.0 ± 10.2 342.7 ± 0.2 2.21 ± 0.08
MX3 89.4 ± 9.9 344.9 ± 0.2 2.21 ± 0.08
RH08 87.0 ± 9.3 349.0 ± 0.2 2.21 ± 0.08
RH09 79.0 ± 4.3 327.1 ± 0.1 2.21 ± 0.08
RH10 77.8 ± 4.5 328.5 ± 1.7 2.21 ± 0.08
Average 85.0 333.4 2.21
Median 88.5 341.3 2.21
Deviation 4.9 17.7 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 54.1 ± 0.7 2.7 ± 0.1 3.9 ± 0.2 33.3 ± 1.0 20.16 ± 0.69 1.63 ± 0.06
VC 58.5 ± 0.6 0.4 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.0 33.4 ± 1.0 148.52 ± 4.02 1.75 ± 0.05
MX1 58.3 ± 0.6 0.4 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.0 33.4 ± 1.0 136.26 ± 3.80 1.75 ± 0.05
MX2 58.4 ± 0.6 0.3 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0 33.4 ± 1.0 209.60 ± 5.72 1.75 ± 0.05
MX3 58.4 ± 0.5 0.2 ± 0.0 0.3 ± 0.0 33.4 ± 1.0 311.38 ± 8.37 1.75 ± 0.05
RH8 57.9 ± 0.5 0.9 ± 0.0 1.3 ± 0.1 33.4 ± 1.0 66.51 ± 1.76 1.74 ± 0.05
RH9 46.7 ± 0.5 3.2 ± 0.1 4.7 ± 0.3 33.3 ± 1.0 14.65 ± 0.35 1.41 ± 0.04
RH10 47.2 ± 0.5 3.5 ± 0.1 5.2 ± 0.3 33.2 ± 1.0 13.36 ± 0.32 1.42 ± 0.04
Average 54.9 1.4 2.1 33.4 115.1 1.6
Median 58.3 0.9 1.3 33.4 136.3 1.7
Deviation 5.1 1.4 2.1 0.1 107.5 0.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 24.3 ± 0.6 3.2 ± 0.1 4.6 ± 0.3 39.9 ± 1.2 7.55 ± 0.32 0.61 ± 0.03
VC 26.3 ± 0.6 0.5 ± 0.0 0.7 ± 0.0 40.0 ± 1.2 55.65 ± 2.41 0.66 ± 0.03
MX1 26.2 ± 0.6 0.5 ± 0.0 0.7 ± 0.0 40.0 ± 1.2 51.03 ± 2.16 0.66 ± 0.03
MX2 26.3 ± 0.6 0.3 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 40.0 ± 1.2 78.49 ± 3.32 0.66 ± 0.03
MX3 26.3 ± 0.6 0.2 ± 0.0 0.3 ± 0.0 40.0 ± 1.2 116.69 ± 4.93 0.66 ± 0.03
RH8 26.0 ± 0.5 1.0 ± 0.0 1.5 ± 0.1 40.0 ± 1.2 24.87 ± 1.02 0.65 ± 0.03
RH9 21.0 ± 0.6 3.8 ± 0.1 5.4 ± 0.4 39.9 ± 1.2 5.47 ± 0.21 0.53 ± 0.02
RH10 21.2 ± 0.6 4.2 ± 0.1 6.0 ± 0.4 39.8 ± 1.2 5.00 ± 0.18 0.53 ± 0.02
Average 24.7 1.7 2.5 40.0 43.1 0.6
Median 26.2 1.0 1.5 40.0 51.0 0.7
Deviation 2.3 1.7 2.4 0.1 40.3 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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