CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Ace Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20120720841
Observation time: 03/12/2012 72.36222 0841 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2012
Fractional day of year 72.362222
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 31296.0 ± 60.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 235.277
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -38.545
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -19.991
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0008
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0005
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Event added to database
Tue Oct 14 16:08:51 2014
Event last processed

Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
-NaN ± -NaN

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -429.9 ± 6.0 -557.8 ± 8.4
Vy GSE [km/s] -39.1 ± 3.0 -78.2 ± 20.3
Vz GSE [km/s] 4.7 ± 9.1 -25.5 ± 9.9
Wi [km/s] 41.4 ± 1.6 70.9 ± 8.1
We [km/s] 1307.9 ± 51.7 2243.3 ± 255.4
Ni [n/cc] 10.6 ± 1.1 34.7 ± 5.8
Bx GSE [nT] -2.8 ± 0.4 8.5 ± 5.1
By GSE [nT] 7.1 ± 0.4 7.0 ± 8.9
Bz GSE [nT] 1.5 ± 2.5 -17.7 ± 5.5
Plasma Beta
0.000 ± 0.000
0.000 ± 0.000
Sound Speed [km/s]
0.00 ± 0.00
0.00 ± 0.00
Alfven Speed [km/s]
0.00 ± 0.00
0.00 ± 0.00

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
VC 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
MX1 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
MX2 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
MX3 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
RH08 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
RH09 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
RH10 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
Average 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Median 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Deviation 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00
VC 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00
MX1 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00
MX2 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00
MX3 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00
RH08 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00
RH09 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00
RH10 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00
Average 0.0 0.0 0.00
Median 0.0 0.0 0.00
Deviation 0.0 0.0 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
VC 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
MX1 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
MX2 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
MX3 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
RH8 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
RH9 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
RH10 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
Average 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Median 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Deviation 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
VC 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
MX1 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
MX2 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
MX3 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
RH8 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
RH9 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
RH10 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.0 ± 0.0 0.00 ± 0.00 0.00 ± 0.00
Average 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Median 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Deviation 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

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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