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Database: Ace Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20063481351
Observation time: 12/14/2006 348.57774 1351 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2006
Fractional day of year 348.577741
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 49916.8 ± 70.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 228.048
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -40.214
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 12.378
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0012
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0780
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0633
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 5.53, 6.00, 6.68
Event added to database
Tue Oct 14 13:51:11 2014
Event last processed
Wed Oct 15 12:23:07 2014
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
-41.367 ± 8.750

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -596.2 ± 18.2 -888.8 ± 12.7
Vy GSE [km/s] -17.8 ± 22.0 146.2 ± 25.3
Vz GSE [km/s] -0.7 ± 18.8 91.7 ± 26.5
Wi [km/s] 50.2 ± 4.8 119.9 ± 4.9
We [km/s] 1587.5 ± 153.1 3792.8 ± 153.5
Ni [n/cc] 1.9 ± 0.3 3.9 ± 0.8
Bx GSE [nT] 3.0 ± 0.5 0.9 ± 4.4
By GSE [nT] -1.6 ± 1.2 5.6 ± 7.1
Bz GSE [nT] -3.0 ± 1.0 -1.6 ± 4.2
Plasma Beta
0.451 ± 0.408
3.105 ± 1.852
Sound Speed [km/s]
64.81 ± 6.25
154.84 ± 6.27
Alfven Speed [km/s]
76.41 ± 6.92
106.14 ± 63.09

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.811 ± 0.207 -0.102 ± 0.379 0.576 ± 0.502 35.14 ± 20.22 187.14 ± 26.69
VC -0.842 ± 0.047 0.469 ± 0.075 0.265 ± 0.259 15.40 ± 5.38 150.89 ± 5.04
MX1 -0.944 ± 0.227 0.330 ± 0.650 0.000 ± 0.000 0.01 ± 47.80 160.75 ± 39.45
MX2 -0.951 ± 0.085 0.001 ± 0.432 0.310 ± 0.300 18.06 ± 15.72 179.94 ± 26.03
MX3 -0.984 ± 0.062 0.093 ± 0.404 0.150 ± 0.149 8.65 ± 18.83 174.62 ± 23.52
RH08 0.043 ± 0.012 -0.206 ± 0.002 0.978 ± 0.286 77.86 ± 0.00 281.78 ± 3.33
RH09 0.032 ± 0.063 -0.208 ± 0.056 0.978 ± 0.286 77.86 ± 3.28 278.77 ± 17.28
RH10 0.030 ± 0.070 -0.255 ± 0.064 0.966 ± 0.337 75.12 ± 3.82 276.77 ± 15.71
Average -0.553 0.015 0.528 38.514 211.333
Median -0.811 0.001 0.576 35.142 187.140
Deviation 0.491 0.266 0.403 33.329 57.227

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 31.7 ± 9.7 1027.0 ± 15.1 2.10 ± 0.58
VC 29.8 ± 11.8 1186.5 ± 19.0 2.10 ± 0.58
MX1 44.4 ± 9.4 1204.2 ± 18.9 2.10 ± 0.58
MX2 36.7 ± 7.0 1176.0 ± 17.4 2.10 ± 0.58
MX3 41.2 ± 6.9 1215.0 ± 18.2 2.10 ± 0.58
RH08 58.4 ± 12.1 72.0 ± 4.3 2.10 ± 0.58
RH09 57.9 ± 12.1 85.6 ± 4.3 2.10 ± 0.58
RH10 59.4 ± 12.1 68.0 ± 46.0 2.10 ± 0.58
Average 44.9 754.3 2.10
Median 44.4 1176.0 2.10
Deviation 12.2 565.4 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 541.9 ± 15.5 47.4 ± 3.1 65.0 ± 5.9 88.5 ± 5.2 11.49 ± 0.87 6.14 ± 0.39
VC 692.9 ± 18.4 48.7 ± 3.2 66.3 ± 6.0 87.8 ± 5.1 14.28 ± 0.95 7.91 ± 0.46
MX1 647.2 ± 20.3 37.8 ± 2.4 54.6 ± 4.9 93.0 ± 5.5 17.16 ± 1.15 6.98 ± 0.43
MX2 609.4 ± 16.3 43.7 ± 2.8 61.2 ± 5.5 90.4 ± 5.3 14.00 ± 0.99 6.76 ± 0.42
MX3 630.0 ± 17.6 40.3 ± 2.6 57.5 ± 5.2 92.0 ± 5.4 15.69 ± 1.08 6.87 ± 0.42
RH8 94.6 ± 21.4 26.7 ± 1.7 40.1 ± 3.6 96.8 ± 5.7 3.57 ± 0.90 0.98 ± 0.24
RH9 101.7 ± 21.4 27.1 ± 1.7 40.6 ± 3.7 96.7 ± 5.7 3.79 ± 0.89 1.06 ± 0.24
RH10 82.1 ± 21.9 25.9 ± 1.6 38.9 ± 3.5 97.0 ± 5.7 3.20 ± 0.93 0.85 ± 0.24
Average 425.0 37.2 53.0 92.8 10.4 4.7
Median 609.4 40.3 57.5 93.0 14.0 6.8
Deviation 278.3 9.5 11.5 3.8 5.9 3.1

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 267.9 ± 12.1 74.4 ± 31.4 90.3 ± 53.7 177.7 ± 30.7 4.30 ± 1.96 1.54 ± 0.20
VC 344.9 ± 18.0 76.3 ± 32.4 92.1 ± 54.7 176.8 ± 30.3 5.37 ± 2.37 1.99 ± 0.24
MX1 316.8 ± 14.7 60.2 ± 24.6 75.8 ± 45.1 183.5 ± 33.4 6.20 ± 2.67 1.77 ± 0.26
MX2 302.4 ± 10.7 69.0 ± 28.7 85.1 ± 50.6 180.1 ± 31.8 5.21 ± 2.34 1.71 ± 0.24
MX3 312.9 ± 11.8 63.9 ± 26.3 79.8 ± 47.5 182.1 ± 32.8 5.80 ± 2.56 1.76 ± 0.25
RH8 50.6 ± 23.8 42.8 ± 17.1 55.7 ± 33.1 188.7 ± 35.8 1.32 ± 0.68 0.27 ± 0.11
RH9 54.8 ± 23.7 43.4 ± 17.3 56.3 ± 33.5 188.6 ± 35.8 1.42 ± 0.71 0.29 ± 0.11
RH10 43.5 ± 23.0 41.5 ± 16.6 54.0 ± 32.1 189.0 ± 36.0 1.17 ± 0.66 0.23 ± 0.11
Average 211.7 59.0 73.6 183.3 3.8 1.2
Median 302.4 63.9 79.8 183.5 5.2 1.7
Deviation 135.9 14.5 16.0 5.0 2.2 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 Mon Apr 13 08:55:21 2009
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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