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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20120841107
Observation time: 03/24/2012 84.46384 1107 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2012
Fractional day of year 84.463837
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 40075.5 ± 20.0
Shock type FR
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 226.979
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 105.494
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 5.309
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0079
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0120
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 33.87, Infinity, -1413.91
Event added to database
Thu Sep 19 12:28:48 2013
Event last processed
Mon Oct 7 14:08:35 2013
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
58.144 ± 2.059

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -422.5 ± 2.9 -468.1 ± 1.9
Vy GSE [km/s] 23.2 ± 3.3 10.9 ± 0.4
Vz GSE [km/s] -4.8 ± 1.9 7.5 ± 0.8
Wi [km/s] 36.5 ± 1.0 28.6 ± 0.2
We [km/s] 1153.0 ± 31.7 904.5 ± 4.9
Ni [n/cc] 7.2 ± 0.6 3.1 ± 0.1
Bx GSE [nT] -2.0 ± 0.2 -2.2 ± 0.1
By GSE [nT] 4.8 ± 0.5 2.7 ± 0.0
Bz GSE [nT] -3.2 ± 1.0 -1.3 ± 0.1
Plasma Beta
0.548 ± 0.511
0.388 ± 0.391
Sound Speed [km/s]
47.07 ± 1.30
36.93 ± 0.20
Alfven Speed [km/s]
49.95 ± 6.23
45.91 ± 0.14

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.970 ± 0.046 0.209 ± 0.204 0.123 ± 0.123 7.09 ± 7.25 167.87 ± 12.03
VC -0.934 ± 0.016 -0.252 ± 0.057 0.252 ± 0.247 14.60 ± 1.40 195.07 ± 3.47
MX1 -0.997 ± 0.006 0.076 ± 0.074 0.025 ± 0.025 1.41 ± 3.63 175.65 ± 4.24
MX2 -0.993 ± 0.010 0.105 ± 0.091 0.051 ± 0.051 2.90 ± 2.12 173.97 ± 5.27
MX3 -0.999 ± 0.003 0.043 ± 0.066 -0.003 ± 0.003 -0.16 ± 5.64 177.53 ± 3.81
RH08 -0.992 ± 0.009 0.113 ± 0.068 -0.050 ± 0.050 -2.88 ± 4.06 173.48 ± 3.91
RH09 -0.000 ± 0.035 -0.000 ± 0.000 -1.000 ± 0.000 -90.00 ± 2.00 0.00 ± 2.00
RH10 0.012 ± 0.070 0.932 ± 0.026 -0.363 ± 0.346 -21.29 ± 4.04 89.25 ± 4.30
Average -0.734 0.153 -0.121 -11.042 144.104
Median -0.970 0.105 0.025 1.413 173.973
Deviation 0.457 0.342 0.396 33.509 66.338

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 64.4 ± 6.3 383.8 ± 2.5 0.43 ± 0.04
VC 89.6 ± 5.5 352.0 ± 2.1 0.43 ± 0.04
MX1 67.2 ± 5.4 390.9 ± 2.4 0.43 ± 0.04
MX2 66.7 ± 5.6 390.1 ± 2.5 0.43 ± 0.04
MX3 67.9 ± 5.1 391.0 ± 2.4 0.43 ± 0.04
RH08 63.1 ± 5.1 391.7 ± 2.4 0.43 ± 0.04
RH09 59.3 ± 7.1 15.2 ± 0.8 0.43 ± 0.04
RH10 24.4 ± 2.4 28.5 ± 3.7 0.43 ± 0.04
Average 62.8 292.9 0.43
Median 66.7 390.1 0.43
Deviation 18.0 167.8 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC -30.4 ± 3.0 15.1 ± 1.0 21.6 ± 2.7 67.0 ± 4.9 -2.02 ± 0.33 -0.46 ± 0.08
VC -35.8 ± 3.2 0.2 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0 68.7 ± 5.0 -144.97 ± 20.98 -0.52 ± 0.08
MX1 -32.0 ± 2.9 13.5 ± 0.9 19.3 ± 2.4 67.4 ± 4.9 -2.39 ± 0.37 -0.48 ± 0.08
MX2 -31.8 ± 2.9 13.8 ± 0.9 19.8 ± 2.5 67.3 ± 4.9 -2.32 ± 0.36 -0.48 ± 0.08
MX3 -32.2 ± 2.9 13.1 ± 0.9 18.8 ± 2.3 67.5 ± 4.9 -2.48 ± 0.38 -0.48 ± 0.08
RH8 -30.4 ± 2.8 15.9 ± 1.1 22.6 ± 2.8 66.8 ± 4.8 -1.93 ± 0.30 -0.46 ± 0.07
RH9 10.4 ± 1.9 18.1 ± 1.2 25.5 ± 3.2 66.3 ± 4.8 0.58 ± 0.13 0.16 ± 0.04
RH10 10.3 ± 3.5 36.8 ± 2.3 45.5 ± 5.7 58.0 ± 4.4 0.28 ± 0.09 0.18 ± 0.06
Average -21.5 15.8 21.7 66.1 -19.4 -0.3
Median -30.4 15.1 21.6 67.3 -2.0 -0.5
Deviation 19.7 10.0 12.3 3.4 50.8 0.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC -73.6 ± 2.1 12.7 ± 0.0 19.8 ± 0.1 57.5 ± 0.0 -5.78 ± 0.16 -1.28 ± 0.04
VC -84.5 ± 1.9 0.2 ± 0.0 0.3 ± 0.0 58.9 ± 0.0 -404.47 ± 9.19 -1.44 ± 0.03
MX1 -76.8 ± 2.0 11.3 ± 0.0 17.8 ± 0.1 57.8 ± 0.0 -6.77 ± 0.18 -1.33 ± 0.03
MX2 -76.4 ± 2.0 11.6 ± 0.0 18.2 ± 0.1 57.8 ± 0.0 -6.58 ± 0.17 -1.32 ± 0.03
MX3 -77.2 ± 2.0 11.0 ± 0.0 17.3 ± 0.1 57.9 ± 0.0 -7.01 ± 0.18 -1.33 ± 0.03
RH8 -73.6 ± 1.9 13.4 ± 0.0 20.8 ± 0.1 57.4 ± 0.0 -5.50 ± 0.15 -1.28 ± 0.03
RH9 22.8 ± 0.8 15.2 ± 0.0 23.4 ± 0.1 56.9 ± 0.0 1.50 ± 0.05 0.40 ± 0.01
RH10 26.8 ± 0.1 30.7 ± 0.1 41.8 ± 0.1 50.3 ± 0.0 0.87 ± 0.00 0.53 ± 0.00
Average -51.6 13.3 19.9 56.8 -54.2 -0.9
Median -73.6 12.7 19.8 57.8 -5.8 -1.3
Deviation 47.3 8.4 11.3 2.7 141.6 0.8

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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