CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 19950091253
Observation time: 01/09/1995 9.53682 1253 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 1995
Fractional day of year 9.536823
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 46381.5 ± 60.0
Shock type SF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 127.136
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -76.280
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -9.700
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0253
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0273
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 12.23, 22.88, 2.84
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 10:59:51 2005
Event last processed
Wed Mar 25 12:39:16 2009
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
56.246 ± 14.903

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -460.1 ± 1.8 -477.9 ± 4.0
Vy GSE [km/s] -5.8 ± 1.4 4.4 ± 4.4
Vz GSE [km/s] 26.4 ± 1.9 8.9 ± 3.5
Wi [km/s] 27.1 ± 0.6 40.1 ± 2.6
We [km/s] 857.5 ± 18.1 1269.5 ± 82.2
Ni [n/cc] 1.8 ± 0.1 3.5 ± 0.3
Bx GSE [nT] 5.4 ± 0.0 2.2 ± 1.6
By GSE [nT] -0.3 ± 0.2 -1.8 ± 1.1
Bz GSE [nT] 0.7 ± 0.2 1.6 ± 0.8
Plasma Beta
0.093 ± 0.093
0.817 ± 0.778
Sound Speed [km/s]
35.01 ± 0.74
51.83 ± 3.35
Alfven Speed [km/s]
89.11 ± 1.76
44.92 ± 3.33

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.631 ± 0.280 0.690 ± 0.270 -0.355 ± 0.339 -20.77 ± 33.92 132.41 ± 20.08
VC -0.666 ± 0.107 0.388 ± 0.155 -0.638 ± 0.533 -39.61 ± 6.23 149.76 ± 13.02
MX1 -0.789 ± 0.420 0.302 ± 0.606 -0.535 ± 0.477 -32.36 ± 40.61 159.03 ± 42.93
MX2 -0.863 ± 0.373 0.113 ± 0.804 -0.493 ± 0.448 -29.53 ± 42.02 172.55 ± 53.30
MX3 -0.790 ± 0.398 0.330 ± 0.658 -0.517 ± 0.465 -31.14 ± 35.08 157.30 ± 46.94
RH08 -0.372 ± 0.012 0.720 ± 0.012 -0.587 ± 0.508 -35.92 ± 1.14 117.33 ± 0.86
RH09 -0.457 ± 0.063 0.722 ± 0.049 -0.520 ± 0.467 -31.30 ± 4.01 122.34 ± 4.76
RH10 -0.110 ± 0.043 0.673 ± 0.053 0.732 ± 0.560 47.04 ± 4.16 99.28 ± 3.56
Average -0.585 0.492 -0.364 -21.698 138.750
Median -0.631 0.673 -0.517 -31.138 149.760
Deviation 0.255 0.237 0.450 28.298 24.917

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 45.1 ± 1.6 328.5 ± 7.1 1.95 ± 0.29
VC 40.8 ± 2.0 344.0 ± 7.1 1.95 ± 0.29
MX1 30.4 ± 2.1 402.3 ± 7.2 1.95 ± 0.29
MX2 23.0 ± 2.3 434.0 ± 7.5 1.95 ± 0.29
MX3 30.4 ± 2.0 403.2 ± 7.2 1.95 ± 0.29
RH08 61.4 ± 1.7 202.5 ± 8.2 1.95 ± 0.29
RH09 56.2 ± 1.7 243.6 ± 7.8 1.95 ± 0.29
RH10 86.6 ± 2.3 57.6 ± 2.8 1.95 ± 0.29
Average 46.7 302.0 1.95
Median 45.1 344.0 1.95
Deviation 20.8 127.2 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 51.8 ± 1.2 23.7 ± 0.5 62.9 ± 1.2 92.7 ± 1.7 2.18 ± 0.04 0.56 ± 0.02
VC 56.9 ± 1.3 25.6 ± 0.5 67.5 ± 1.3 92.2 ± 1.7 2.22 ± 0.04 0.62 ± 0.02
MX1 55.3 ± 1.2 29.5 ± 0.6 76.9 ± 1.5 91.1 ± 1.7 1.87 ± 0.04 0.61 ± 0.02
MX2 50.8 ± 1.2 31.8 ± 0.6 82.0 ± 1.6 90.3 ± 1.7 1.60 ± 0.05 0.56 ± 0.02
MX3 55.5 ± 1.2 29.6 ± 0.6 76.9 ± 1.5 91.1 ± 1.7 1.88 ± 0.04 0.61 ± 0.02
RH8 51.1 ± 1.7 15.8 ± 0.3 42.7 ± 0.8 94.4 ± 1.6 3.23 ± 0.06 0.54 ± 0.02
RH9 51.3 ± 1.5 18.4 ± 0.3 49.5 ± 1.0 93.9 ± 1.6 2.78 ± 0.05 0.55 ± 0.02
RH10 -8.4 ± 0.9 1.9 ± 0.0 5.3 ± 0.1 95.7 ± 1.6 -4.36 ± 0.46 -0.09 ± 0.01
Average 45.5 22.1 58.0 92.7 1.4 0.5
Median 51.8 25.6 67.5 92.7 2.2 0.6
Deviation 21.9 9.9 25.3 1.9 2.4 0.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 27.3 ± 4.1 25.8 ± 1.3 31.7 ± 2.3 63.7 ± 2.8 1.06 ± 0.15 0.43 ± 0.06
VC 29.9 ± 4.1 28.1 ± 1.4 34.0 ± 2.5 62.7 ± 2.8 1.06 ± 0.13 0.48 ± 0.07
MX1 28.8 ± 3.9 33.4 ± 1.7 38.7 ± 2.9 60.0 ± 2.7 0.86 ± 0.11 0.48 ± 0.07
MX2 25.6 ± 3.8 36.9 ± 2.0 41.3 ± 3.1 57.9 ± 2.6 0.69 ± 0.10 0.44 ± 0.07
MX3 29.0 ± 3.9 33.4 ± 1.7 38.8 ± 2.9 60.0 ± 2.7 0.87 ± 0.11 0.48 ± 0.07
RH8 26.8 ± 4.8 16.7 ± 0.8 21.5 ± 1.6 66.6 ± 2.9 1.61 ± 0.27 0.40 ± 0.07
RH9 26.6 ± 4.6 19.6 ± 1.0 25.0 ± 1.8 65.8 ± 2.9 1.36 ± 0.22 0.41 ± 0.07
RH10 -4.4 ± 1.3 2.0 ± 0.1 2.7 ± 0.2 68.6 ± 3.0 -2.20 ± 0.66 -0.06 ± 0.02
Average 23.7 24.5 29.2 63.2 0.7 0.4
Median 27.3 28.1 34.0 63.7 1.1 0.4
Deviation 11.4 11.5 12.8 3.7 1.2 0.2

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 Fri Jun 13 11:06:02 2014
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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