CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Ace Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20140841924
Observation time: 03/25/2014 84.80898 1924 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2014
Fractional day of year 84.808982
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 69896.0 ± 90.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 221.832
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -18.560
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -22.662
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0006
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0006
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0005
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 11.73, 38.67, 45.70
Event added to database
Fri Oct 10 15:13:49 2014
Event last processed
Tue Oct 14 16:29:49 2014
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
76.316 ± 29.385

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -376.2 ± 2.8 -463.5 ± 5.9
Vy GSE [km/s] -52.3 ± 2.7 -93.1 ± 5.3
Vz GSE [km/s] 12.0 ± 1.5 -8.5 ± 4.5
Wi [km/s] 31.0 ± 1.7 43.3 ± 2.7
We [km/s] 979.4 ± 52.8 1370.4 ± 86.1
Ni [n/cc] 3.5 ± 0.3 9.8 ± 1.1
Bx GSE [nT] 0.4 ± 0.2 7.1 ± 1.2
By GSE [nT] -0.0 ± 0.3 -7.4 ± 0.4
Bz GSE [nT] -2.3 ± 0.2 2.0 ± 1.5
Plasma Beta
1.322 ± 1.489
0.356 ± 0.349
Sound Speed [km/s]
39.98 ± 2.16
55.95 ± 3.52
Alfven Speed [km/s]
27.44 ± 2.80
73.51 ± 5.18

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.359 ± 0.096 0.204 ± 0.101 0.911 ± 0.472 65.65 ± 5.83 150.42 ± 14.45
VC -0.886 ± 0.020 -0.414 ± 0.039 -0.209 ± 0.206 -12.05 ± 2.81 205.01 ± 2.49
MX1 -0.739 ± 0.289 -0.243 ± 0.292 0.628 ± 0.528 38.90 ± 26.37 198.23 ± 21.51
MX2 -0.694 ± 0.059 -0.705 ± 0.058 -0.149 ± 0.148 -8.58 ± 3.83 225.46 ± 4.79
MX3 -0.721 ± 0.051 -0.689 ± 0.053 -0.078 ± 0.078 -4.49 ± 4.01 223.69 ± 4.22
RH08 -0.363 ± 0.014 0.136 ± 0.019 0.922 ± 0.455 67.19 ± 0.83 159.44 ± 2.88
RH09 -0.683 ± 0.048 -0.545 ± 0.055 0.486 ± 0.444 29.08 ± 3.97 218.61 ± 4.25
RH10 -0.683 ± 0.050 -0.565 ± 0.057 0.464 ± 0.427 27.63 ± 4.06 219.61 ± 4.43
Average -0.641 -0.353 0.372 25.416 200.059
Median -0.683 -0.414 0.486 29.080 218.607
Deviation 0.185 0.355 0.462 31.663 29.451

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 16.6 ± 6.5 142.6 ± 1.1 2.85 ± 0.45
VC 86.7 ± 5.8 509.3 ± 3.5 2.85 ± 0.45
MX1 42.3 ± 5.5 395.7 ± 2.8 2.85 ± 0.45
MX2 87.9 ± 6.5 441.5 ± 3.5 2.85 ± 0.45
MX3 87.8 ± 6.4 452.3 ± 3.5 2.85 ± 0.45
RH08 14.6 ± 5.9 152.3 ± 1.2 2.85 ± 0.45
RH09 54.1 ± 6.4 404.0 ± 3.2 2.85 ± 0.45
RH10 55.6 ± 6.4 406.5 ± 17.3 2.85 ± 0.45
Average 55.7 363.0 2.85
Median 55.6 406.5 2.85
Deviation 30.3 137.9 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 7.5 ± 2.2 25.4 ± 2.2 26.3 ± 2.7 41.4 ± 1.8 0.30 ± 0.09 0.18 ± 0.06
VC 156.8 ± 2.1 1.3 ± 0.1 1.6 ± 0.2 48.6 ± 1.7 122.87 ± 8.35 3.23 ± 0.13
MX1 97.4 ± 2.2 17.9 ± 1.3 20.3 ± 2.1 45.1 ± 1.5 5.46 ± 0.45 2.16 ± 0.12
MX2 145.6 ± 1.8 0.8 ± 0.1 1.0 ± 0.1 48.6 ± 1.7 178.83 ± 12.14 3.00 ± 0.11
MX3 146.0 ± 1.8 0.9 ± 0.1 1.0 ± 0.1 48.6 ± 1.7 170.48 ± 11.63 3.01 ± 0.11
RH8 11.8 ± 2.1 25.8 ± 2.3 26.6 ± 2.7 41.1 ± 1.8 0.46 ± 0.10 0.29 ± 0.06
RH9 112.7 ± 1.8 13.8 ± 0.9 16.1 ± 1.6 46.6 ± 1.6 8.22 ± 0.62 2.42 ± 0.11
RH10 114.6 ± 1.8 13.2 ± 0.9 15.5 ± 1.6 46.7 ± 1.6 8.71 ± 0.66 2.46 ± 0.11
Average 99.0 12.4 13.5 45.8 61.9 2.1
Median 114.6 13.8 16.1 46.7 8.7 2.5
Deviation 58.7 10.5 11.0 3.1 80.8 1.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 3.1 ± 3.9 51.0 ± 2.2 70.4 ± 5.0 77.1 ± 4.1 0.06 ± 0.08 0.04 ± 0.05
VC 58.3 ± 6.8 2.5 ± 0.1 4.2 ± 0.3 92.5 ± 2.8 23.16 ± 3.10 0.63 ± 0.07
MX1 35.7 ± 6.7 35.5 ± 0.9 54.3 ± 3.8 85.4 ± 3.1 1.01 ± 0.21 0.42 ± 0.07
MX2 53.2 ± 7.1 1.6 ± 0.0 2.7 ± 0.2 92.5 ± 2.8 33.14 ± 4.93 0.58 ± 0.08
MX3 53.4 ± 7.3 1.7 ± 0.0 2.8 ± 0.2 92.5 ± 2.8 31.59 ± 4.79 0.58 ± 0.08
RH8 4.5 ± 4.3 52.0 ± 2.4 71.1 ± 5.0 76.4 ± 4.2 0.09 ± 0.09 0.06 ± 0.05
RH9 40.8 ± 7.6 27.2 ± 0.6 43.1 ± 3.0 88.4 ± 2.9 1.50 ± 0.30 0.46 ± 0.08
RH10 41.5 ± 7.6 26.1 ± 0.6 41.5 ± 2.9 88.8 ± 2.9 1.59 ± 0.31 0.47 ± 0.08
Average 36.3 24.7 36.3 86.7 11.5 0.4
Median 41.5 27.2 43.1 88.8 1.6 0.5
Deviation 21.5 21.1 29.4 6.6 15.0 0.2

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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