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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20081161827
Observation time: 04/25/2008 116.76939 1827 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2008
Fractional day of year 116.769392
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 66475.5 ± 30.0
Shock type SF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 219.637
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 98.457
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 3.336
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0120
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0004
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0150
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 0.29, 0.48, 0.77
Event added to database
Wed Sep 25 11:03:00 2013
Event last processed
Wed Sep 25 17:02:53 2013
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
33.280 ± 10.001

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -493.9 ± 2.3 -541.1 ± 3.0
Vy GSE [km/s] 1.5 ± 5.4 -7.2 ± 2.9
Vz GSE [km/s] -30.1 ± 1.2 3.1 ± 1.0
Wi [km/s] 33.9 ± 2.3 43.0 ± 1.2
We [km/s] 1070.8 ± 72.9 1359.8 ± 39.3
Ni [n/cc] 1.6 ± 0.0 2.2 ± 0.1
Bx GSE [nT] 2.4 ± 0.2 -1.6 ± 0.1
By GSE [nT] -0.4 ± 0.5 -1.5 ± 0.2
Bz GSE [nT] -2.3 ± 0.2 0.2 ± 0.1
Plasma Beta
0.353 ± 0.317
1.903 ± 2.105
Sound Speed [km/s]
43.71 ± 2.98
55.52 ± 1.60
Alfven Speed [km/s]
57.31 ± 1.97
31.62 ± 3.29

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.766 ± 0.808 -0.591 ± 1.042 -0.254 ± 0.249 -14.74 ± 30.93 217.64 ± 77.69
VC -0.811 ± 0.024 -0.143 ± 0.083 0.568 ± 0.497 34.59 ± 1.94 190.02 ± 5.85
MX1 -0.765 ± 0.786 -0.582 ± 1.025 -0.277 ± 0.269 -16.07 ± 30.41 217.26 ± 76.51
MX2 -0.766 ± 0.813 -0.592 ± 1.045 -0.250 ± 0.245 -14.48 ± 31.07 217.72 ± 77.92
MX3 -0.963 ± 0.322 -0.202 ± 1.462 -0.178 ± 0.176 -10.26 ± 32.21 191.83 ± 86.98
RH08 -0.568 ± 0.042 0.377 ± 0.049 -0.732 ± 0.560 -47.04 ± 2.73 146.41 ± 4.55
RH09 -0.568 ± 0.046 0.377 ± 0.055 -0.732 ± 0.560 -47.04 ± 2.98 146.41 ± 5.13
RH10 -0.568 ± 0.057 0.377 ± 0.065 -0.732 ± 0.560 -47.04 ± 3.96 146.41 ± 5.90
Average -0.722 -0.122 -0.323 -20.260 184.212
Median -0.765 -0.143 -0.254 -14.738 191.833
Deviation 0.143 0.448 0.436 27.623 33.192

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 72.3 ± 9.2 498.8 ± 10.4 1.37 ± 0.09
VC 17.3 ± 10.0 581.0 ± 14.3 1.37 ± 0.09
MX1 73.2 ± 9.2 496.0 ± 10.2 1.37 ± 0.09
MX2 72.1 ± 9.2 499.3 ± 10.5 1.37 ± 0.09
MX3 57.4 ± 7.1 621.2 ± 11.2 1.37 ± 0.09
RH08 86.7 ± 0.5 300.7 ± 0.7 1.37 ± 0.09
RH09 86.7 ± 0.5 300.7 ± 0.7 1.37 ± 0.09
RH10 86.7 ± 0.5 300.7 ± 2.4 1.37 ± 0.09
Average 69.0 449.8 1.37
Median 73.2 498.8 1.37
Deviation 23.3 131.1 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 113.8 ± 4.6 10.7 ± 0.3 17.4 ± 0.6 71.3 ± 0.4 10.67 ± 0.31 1.60 ± 0.07
VC 197.9 ± 2.8 39.7 ± 1.9 54.7 ± 1.9 60.2 ± 1.0 4.99 ± 0.23 3.29 ± 0.09
MX1 110.8 ± 4.6 10.1 ± 0.3 16.6 ± 0.6 71.4 ± 0.4 10.95 ± 0.33 1.55 ± 0.06
MX2 114.4 ± 4.6 10.8 ± 0.3 17.6 ± 0.6 71.3 ± 0.4 10.62 ± 0.31 1.60 ± 0.07
MX3 140.5 ± 3.1 19.4 ± 0.6 30.9 ± 1.1 69.5 ± 0.3 7.24 ± 0.20 2.02 ± 0.05
RH8 -2.2 ± 0.9 2.0 ± 0.1 3.3 ± 0.1 72.1 ± 0.4 -1.12 ± 0.44 -0.03 ± 0.01
RH9 -2.2 ± 0.9 2.0 ± 0.1 3.3 ± 0.1 72.1 ± 0.4 -1.12 ± 0.44 -0.03 ± 0.01
RH10 -2.2 ± 0.9 2.0 ± 0.1 3.3 ± 0.1 72.1 ± 0.4 -1.12 ± 0.44 -0.03 ± 0.01
Average 83.8 12.1 18.4 70.0 5.1 1.2
Median 113.8 10.7 17.4 71.4 7.2 1.6
Deviation 76.5 12.7 17.6 4.1 5.6 1.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 80.9 ± 3.8 8.4 ± 0.6 9.6 ± 1.0 63.4 ± 1.1 9.68 ± 1.02 1.28 ± 0.06
VC 139.5 ± 3.2 29.6 ± 2.8 30.2 ± 3.1 56.7 ± 1.3 4.76 ± 0.50 2.46 ± 0.02
MX1 78.8 ± 3.7 8.0 ± 0.6 9.1 ± 1.0 63.5 ± 1.1 9.93 ± 1.05 1.24 ± 0.06
MX2 81.3 ± 3.8 8.5 ± 0.6 9.7 ± 1.0 63.4 ± 1.1 9.64 ± 1.01 1.28 ± 0.06
MX3 99.2 ± 3.3 15.2 ± 1.1 17.1 ± 1.8 62.1 ± 1.0 6.55 ± 0.62 1.60 ± 0.05
RH8 -1.5 ± 0.2 1.6 ± 0.1 1.8 ± 0.2 63.9 ± 1.2 -0.97 ± 0.15 -0.02 ± 0.00
RH9 -1.5 ± 0.2 1.6 ± 0.1 1.8 ± 0.2 63.9 ± 1.2 -0.97 ± 0.15 -0.02 ± 0.00
RH10 -1.5 ± 0.2 1.6 ± 0.1 1.8 ± 0.2 63.9 ± 1.2 -0.97 ± 0.15 -0.02 ± 0.00
Average 59.4 9.3 10.1 62.6 4.7 1.0
Median 80.9 8.4 9.6 63.5 6.6 1.3
Deviation 54.1 9.5 9.7 2.5 5.0 0.9

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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