CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20080202042
Observation time: 01/20/2008 20.86259 2042 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2008
Fractional day of year 20.862587
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 74527.5 ± 20.0
Shock type SF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 232.230
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -88.105
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 11.020
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0241
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0252
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 4.68, 4.92, 5.34
Event added to database
Wed Sep 25 10:48:42 2013
Event last processed
Wed Sep 25 17:00:55 2013
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
47.579 ± 11.901

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -590.5 ± 2.6 -610.8 ± 3.2
Vy GSE [km/s] 2.0 ± 1.0 -5.9 ± 4.9
Vz GSE [km/s] 16.6 ± 2.7 -9.7 ± 4.1
Wi [km/s] 42.3 ± 1.2 32.4 ± 1.5
We [km/s] 1336.9 ± 36.7 1023.0 ± 48.0
Ni [n/cc] 2.2 ± 0.0 1.5 ± 0.1
Bx GSE [nT] -2.5 ± 0.1 2.4 ± 0.1
By GSE [nT] 0.1 ± 0.1 2.2 ± 0.5
Bz GSE [nT] -1.9 ± 0.2 2.4 ± 0.3
Plasma Beta
0.843 ± 0.819
0.200 ± 0.212
Sound Speed [km/s]
54.58 ± 1.50
41.77 ± 1.96
Alfven Speed [km/s]
46.11 ± 0.93
72.95 ± 4.14

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.375 ± 0.077 0.927 ± 0.032 -0.036 ± 0.036 -2.04 ± 9.83 112.01 ± 4.79
VC -0.604 ± 0.092 -0.241 ± 0.145 -0.760 ± 0.561 -49.45 ± 5.89 201.80 ± 13.52
MX1 -0.685 ± 0.256 0.644 ± 0.270 0.341 ± 0.327 19.93 ± 14.58 136.73 ± 22.04
MX2 -0.958 ± 0.335 -0.227 ± 1.377 0.173 ± 0.172 9.99 ± 27.27 193.31 ± 82.30
MX3 -0.640 ± 0.183 -0.291 ± 0.355 0.711 ± 0.556 45.31 ± 7.76 204.47 ± 31.56
RH08 -0.687 ± 0.010 0.359 ± 0.013 0.631 ± 0.530 39.14 ± 0.83 152.42 ± 1.00
RH09 -0.687 ± 0.024 0.359 ± 0.035 0.631 ± 0.530 39.14 ± 1.75 152.42 ± 2.79
RH10 -0.687 ± 0.035 0.359 ± 0.049 0.631 ± 0.530 39.14 ± 2.52 152.42 ± 3.95
Average -0.665 0.236 0.290 17.647 163.198
Median -0.685 0.359 0.631 39.145 152.423
Deviation 0.159 0.449 0.500 31.858 33.315

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 69.4 ± 3.3 222.8 ± 1.5 0.71 ± 0.05
VC 21.7 ± 4.6 265.1 ± 3.6 0.71 ± 0.05
MX1 68.7 ± 4.8 412.6 ± 1.2 0.71 ± 0.05
MX2 49.4 ± 3.9 532.4 ± 2.3 0.71 ± 0.05
MX3 85.8 ± 4.0 396.6 ± 1.3 0.71 ± 0.05
RH08 79.6 ± 5.1 430.2 ± 1.0 0.71 ± 0.05
RH09 79.6 ± 5.1 430.2 ± 1.0 0.71 ± 0.05
RH10 79.6 ± 5.1 430.2 ± 7.3 0.71 ± 0.05
Average 66.7 390.0 0.71
Median 79.6 430.2 0.71
Deviation 21.4 99.5 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 0.5 ± 1.5 12.6 ± 0.1 16.2 ± 0.3 70.3 ± 0.9 0.04 ± 0.12 0.01 ± 0.02
VC -78.2 ± 3.1 39.1 ± 0.5 42.8 ± 0.9 59.8 ± 1.0 -2.00 ± 0.08 -1.31 ± 0.06
MX1 1.5 ± 1.6 13.0 ± 0.1 16.8 ± 0.3 70.3 ± 0.9 0.11 ± 0.13 0.02 ± 0.02
MX2 -35.9 ± 2.3 24.4 ± 0.2 30.0 ± 0.6 67.2 ± 0.9 -1.47 ± 0.09 -0.54 ± 0.04
MX3 7.4 ± 1.9 2.6 ± 0.0 3.3 ± 0.1 71.4 ± 0.9 2.88 ± 0.76 0.10 ± 0.03
RH8 13.1 ± 1.7 6.4 ± 0.1 8.4 ± 0.2 71.2 ± 0.9 2.04 ± 0.28 0.18 ± 0.02
RH9 13.1 ± 1.7 6.4 ± 0.1 8.4 ± 0.2 71.2 ± 0.9 2.04 ± 0.28 0.18 ± 0.02
RH10 13.1 ± 1.7 6.4 ± 0.1 8.4 ± 0.2 71.2 ± 0.9 2.04 ± 0.28 0.18 ± 0.02
Average -8.2 13.9 16.8 69.1 0.7 -0.1
Median 7.4 12.6 16.2 71.2 2.0 0.1
Deviation 32.6 12.2 13.4 4.0 1.8 0.5

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC -0.8 ± 5.5 12.9 ± 0.4 25.7 ± 1.5 83.1 ± 3.1 -0.06 ± 0.42 -0.01 ± 0.06
VC -112.4 ± 3.2 37.6 ± 1.5 67.8 ± 3.8 75.2 ± 3.8 -2.99 ± 0.12 -1.50 ± 0.09
MX1 1.7 ± 3.7 13.3 ± 0.4 26.5 ± 1.5 83.1 ± 3.1 0.13 ± 0.28 0.02 ± 0.04
MX2 -52.6 ± 2.6 24.6 ± 0.8 47.5 ± 2.7 80.4 ± 3.2 -2.14 ± 0.12 -0.66 ± 0.05
MX3 10.8 ± 3.8 2.6 ± 0.1 5.3 ± 0.3 84.1 ± 3.0 4.12 ± 1.40 0.13 ± 0.04
RH8 18.6 ± 2.3 6.6 ± 0.2 13.2 ± 0.8 83.9 ± 3.0 2.84 ± 0.39 0.22 ± 0.03
RH9 18.6 ± 2.3 6.6 ± 0.2 13.2 ± 0.8 83.9 ± 3.0 2.84 ± 0.39 0.22 ± 0.03
RH10 18.6 ± 2.3 6.6 ± 0.2 13.2 ± 0.8 83.9 ± 3.0 2.84 ± 0.39 0.22 ± 0.03
Average -12.2 13.9 26.6 82.2 0.9 -0.2
Median 10.8 12.9 25.7 83.9 2.8 0.1
Deviation 46.9 11.8 21.1 3.1 2.6 0.6

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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