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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20112681046
Observation time: 09/25/2011 268.44898 1046 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2011
Fractional day of year 268.448976
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 38791.5 ± 10.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 222.452
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 99.171
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 1.011
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0004
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0133
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0002
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0065
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 Infinity, -1133.72, -579.42
Event added to database
Fri Sep 20 13:45:49 2013
Event last processed
Tue Sep 24 10:34:38 2013
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
1.258 ± 0.035

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -314.2 ± 20.3 -344.8 ± 4.7
Vy GSE [km/s] -22.6 ± 8.9 -58.4 ± 2.0
Vz GSE [km/s] -8.5 ± 12.5 -49.5 ± 3.1
Wi [km/s] 32.0 ± 27.4 29.6 ± 0.5
We [km/s] 1010.9 ± 865.3 934.9 ± 16.0
Ni [n/cc] 3.9 ± 0.7 8.7 ± 0.3
Bx GSE [nT] 4.5 ± 1.0 8.7 ± 0.3
By GSE [nT] -4.1 ± 1.1 -6.8 ± 1.4
Bz GSE [nT] 0.6 ± 0.4 -1.5 ± 1.0
Plasma Beta
0.262 ± 0.091
0.128 ± 0.134
Sound Speed [km/s]
41.27 ± 35.32
38.17 ± 0.65
Alfven Speed [km/s]
67.13 ± 10.13
82.79 ± 1.70

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.290 ± 0.253 0.422 ± 0.257 -0.859 ± 0.529 -59.20 ± 17.41 124.51 ± 27.95
VC -0.423 ± 0.237 -0.628 ± 0.164 -0.653 ± 0.539 -40.75 ± 4.29 236.03 ± 21.51
MX1 -0.638 ± 0.098 -0.383 ± 0.140 -0.668 ± 0.544 -41.91 ± 5.33 210.94 ± 12.28
MX2 -0.622 ± 0.043 -0.450 ± 0.040 -0.641 ± 0.534 -39.89 ± 4.23 215.89 ± 2.62
MX3 -0.610 ± 0.086 -0.529 ± 0.097 -0.589 ± 0.509 -36.11 ± 3.01 220.93 ± 8.91
RH08 -0.000 ± 0.000 -0.000 ± 0.000 -1.000 ± 0.000 -90.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 104.36
RH09 -0.472 ± 0.062 0.875 ± 0.034 -0.106 ± 0.106 -6.09 ± 4.02 118.33 ± 4.03
RH10 -0.456 ± 0.062 0.883 ± 0.033 -0.106 ± 0.106 -6.09 ± 4.02 117.33 ± 4.03
Average -0.439 0.024 -0.578 -40.005 155.495
Median -0.456 -0.000 -0.641 -39.888 210.940
Deviation 0.213 0.626 0.321 27.223 80.593

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 54.0 ± 4.2 140.2 ± 2.7 2.43 ± 0.19
VC 87.9 ± 3.8 265.6 ± 2.6 2.43 ± 0.19
MX1 73.3 ± 3.8 326.4 ± 3.7 2.43 ± 0.19
MX2 76.8 ± 3.7 323.9 ± 3.5 2.43 ± 0.19
MX3 80.7 ± 3.5 322.3 ± 3.4 2.43 ± 0.19
RH08 83.8 ± 4.4 85.6 ± 2.5 2.43 ± 0.19
RH09 19.9 ± 1.3 109.2 ± 2.6 2.43 ± 0.19
RH10 20.8 ± 1.4 102.8 ± 6.7 2.43 ± 0.19
Average 62.2 209.5 2.43
Median 76.8 265.6 2.43
Deviation 27.7 109.7 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 51.3 ± 12.9 19.5 ± 12.5 39.4 ± 5.9 78.6 ± 27.0 3.48 ± 1.77 0.73 ± 0.31
VC 113.0 ± 22.3 1.1 ± 0.7 2.4 ± 0.4 81.1 ± 29.4 126.58 ± 60.57 1.56 ± 0.62
MX1 111.6 ± 24.7 9.3 ± 5.8 19.3 ± 2.9 80.5 ± 28.9 15.60 ± 7.65 1.56 ± 0.64
MX2 113.1 ± 24.6 7.3 ± 4.6 15.3 ± 2.3 80.7 ± 29.1 19.98 ± 9.75 1.57 ± 0.64
MX3 113.6 ± 24.5 5.2 ± 3.2 10.8 ± 1.6 80.9 ± 29.2 28.42 ± 13.83 1.58 ± 0.64
RH8 77.1 ± 12.5 3.5 ± 2.2 7.2 ± 1.1 81.0 ± 29.3 28.49 ± 13.18 1.06 ± 0.39
RH9 -20.2 ± 3.2 34.2 ± 24.3 63.1 ± 9.5 72.8 ± 20.3 -0.72 ± 0.25 -0.28 ± 0.03
RH10 -21.6 ± 2.8 33.8 ± 24.0 62.7 ± 9.5 73.0 ± 20.6 -0.78 ± 0.28 -0.30 ± 0.04
Average 67.2 14.2 27.5 78.6 27.6 0.9
Median 111.6 9.3 19.3 80.7 20.0 1.6
Deviation 58.8 13.4 24.5 3.6 41.7 0.8

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 22.3 ± 2.2 20.9 ± 0.2 48.6 ± 1.0 88.7 ± 1.4 1.07 ± 0.12 0.25 ± 0.02
VC 50.7 ± 1.2 1.2 ± 0.0 3.0 ± 0.1 91.2 ± 1.3 40.78 ± 0.54 0.56 ± 0.02
MX1 50.9 ± 1.7 10.0 ± 0.1 23.8 ± 0.5 90.6 ± 1.3 5.07 ± 0.11 0.56 ± 0.03
MX2 51.6 ± 1.8 7.9 ± 0.1 18.9 ± 0.4 90.8 ± 1.3 6.50 ± 0.16 0.57 ± 0.03
MX3 51.8 ± 2.1 5.6 ± 0.1 13.3 ± 0.3 91.0 ± 1.3 9.25 ± 0.28 0.57 ± 0.03
RH8 36.0 ± 3.1 3.7 ± 0.0 8.9 ± 0.2 91.1 ± 1.3 9.66 ± 0.94 0.40 ± 0.03
RH9 -7.7 ± 0.2 35.4 ± 0.6 77.9 ± 1.6 84.0 ± 1.6 -0.22 ± 0.01 -0.09 ± 0.00
RH10 -8.2 ± 0.1 35.1 ± 0.5 77.4 ± 1.6 84.1 ± 1.6 -0.24 ± 0.01 -0.10 ± 0.00
Average 30.9 15.0 34.0 88.9 9.0 0.3
Median 50.7 10.0 23.8 90.8 6.5 0.6
Deviation 26.1 13.8 30.2 3.1 13.4 0.3

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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