CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 19960931007
Observation time: 04/02/1996 93.42217 1007 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 1996
Fractional day of year 93.422170
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 36475.5 ± 9.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 70.983
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -4.147
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 1.053
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0281
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0006
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0181
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 13.02, 20.07, 24.54
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:02:18 2005
Event last processed
Mon Mar 30 16:08:55 2009
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
12.745 ± 2.743

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -330.4 ± 1.2 -342.8 ± 1.5
Vy GSE [km/s] -2.6 ± 0.5 6.2 ± 1.8
Vz GSE [km/s] 2.8 ± 0.7 16.8 ± 1.3
Wi [km/s] 18.9 ± 0.3 22.0 ± 0.5
We [km/s] 597.1 ± 10.4 696.4 ± 14.3
Ni [n/cc] 12.1 ± 0.3 18.3 ± 0.9
Bx GSE [nT] 2.5 ± 0.2 4.4 ± 0.3
By GSE [nT] 0.3 ± 0.1 0.1 ± 0.5
Bz GSE [nT] 0.4 ± 0.1 1.2 ± 0.1
Plasma Beta
1.390 ± 1.474
0.904 ± 0.932
Sound Speed [km/s]
24.38 ± 0.42
28.43 ± 0.58
Alfven Speed [km/s]
16.11 ± 1.24
23.43 ± 2.08

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.592 ± 0.281 -0.371 ± 0.354 0.715 ± 0.557 45.68 ± 17.78 212.07 ± 32.32
VC -0.600 ± 0.071 0.428 ± 0.079 0.676 ± 0.547 42.52 ± 5.17 144.53 ± 6.73
MX1 -0.334 ± 0.134 0.522 ± 0.099 0.785 ± 0.559 51.69 ± 4.63 122.62 ± 14.25
MX2 -0.358 ± 0.107 0.462 ± 0.094 0.811 ± 0.553 54.21 ± 4.89 127.80 ± 12.22
MX3 -0.383 ± 0.104 0.407 ± 0.101 0.829 ± 0.546 56.03 ± 5.49 133.31 ± 12.44
RH08 -0.294 ± 0.011 -0.755 ± 0.013 0.587 ± 0.508 35.92 ± 1.24 248.69 ± 0.79
RH09 -0.348 ± 0.058 -0.409 ± 0.058 0.844 ± 0.539 57.52 ± 3.89 229.64 ± 6.25
RH10 -0.341 ± 0.065 -0.415 ± 0.063 0.844 ± 0.539 57.52 ± 3.95 230.64 ± 7.39
Average -0.406 -0.016 0.761 50.135 181.162
Median -0.348 0.407 0.811 54.214 212.075
Deviation 0.120 0.518 0.093 7.955 53.746

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 58.1 ± 3.1 240.9 ± 6.5 1.50 ± 0.07
VC 63.6 ± 0.9 260.6 ± 8.2 1.50 ± 0.07
MX1 81.0 ± 0.9 169.5 ± 7.0 1.50 ± 0.07
MX2 79.4 ± 1.0 178.3 ± 7.0 1.50 ± 0.07
MX3 77.7 ± 1.2 187.3 ± 7.0 1.50 ± 0.07
RH08 72.5 ± 3.4 116.9 ± 5.5 1.50 ± 0.07
RH09 74.0 ± 3.1 155.2 ± 5.7 1.50 ± 0.07
RH10 74.4 ± 3.2 152.4 ± 5.7 1.50 ± 0.07
Average 72.6 182.6 1.50
Median 74.4 178.3 1.50
Deviation 7.9 47.3 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 42.3 ± 1.1 7.3 ± 0.4 8.5 ± 0.7 28.3 ± 0.9 5.79 ± 0.45 1.50 ± 0.08
VC 61.5 ± 1.0 6.1 ± 0.3 7.2 ± 0.6 28.6 ± 0.9 10.11 ± 0.71 2.15 ± 0.10
MX1 58.3 ± 0.8 2.1 ± 0.1 2.5 ± 0.2 29.2 ± 1.0 27.70 ± 1.83 2.00 ± 0.09
MX2 58.8 ± 0.8 2.5 ± 0.1 3.0 ± 0.2 29.1 ± 1.0 23.75 ± 1.58 2.02 ± 0.09
MX3 59.4 ± 0.9 2.9 ± 0.2 3.4 ± 0.3 29.1 ± 1.0 20.74 ± 1.39 2.04 ± 0.09
RH8 16.0 ± 0.9 4.1 ± 0.2 4.8 ± 0.4 28.9 ± 0.9 3.96 ± 0.38 0.56 ± 0.04
RH9 36.9 ± 1.0 3.7 ± 0.2 4.4 ± 0.3 29.0 ± 0.9 9.92 ± 0.74 1.27 ± 0.07
RH10 36.5 ± 0.9 3.6 ± 0.2 4.3 ± 0.3 29.0 ± 0.9 10.05 ± 0.75 1.26 ± 0.07
Average 46.2 4.0 4.8 28.9 14.0 1.6
Median 58.3 3.7 4.4 29.0 10.1 2.0
Deviation 16.1 1.8 2.1 0.3 8.8 0.6

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 28.3 ± 1.3 9.9 ± 0.5 12.4 ± 1.1 35.5 ± 1.1 2.86 ± 0.17 0.80 ± 0.04
VC 40.8 ± 0.8 8.2 ± 0.4 10.4 ± 0.9 35.9 ± 1.1 4.98 ± 0.31 1.14 ± 0.05
MX1 38.6 ± 0.8 2.8 ± 0.1 3.7 ± 0.3 36.8 ± 1.2 13.64 ± 0.76 1.05 ± 0.04
MX2 39.0 ± 0.8 3.3 ± 0.2 4.3 ± 0.4 36.7 ± 1.2 11.70 ± 0.64 1.06 ± 0.04
MX3 39.5 ± 0.7 3.9 ± 0.2 5.0 ± 0.4 36.7 ± 1.2 10.25 ± 0.55 1.08 ± 0.04
RH8 10.8 ± 1.8 5.5 ± 0.3 7.0 ± 0.6 36.5 ± 1.2 1.98 ± 0.28 0.30 ± 0.04
RH9 24.4 ± 1.4 5.0 ± 0.3 6.5 ± 0.6 36.5 ± 1.2 4.87 ± 0.27 0.67 ± 0.03
RH10 24.1 ± 1.4 4.9 ± 0.2 6.3 ± 0.6 36.5 ± 1.2 4.94 ± 0.28 0.66 ± 0.03
Average 30.7 5.4 6.9 36.4 6.9 0.8
Median 38.6 5.0 6.5 36.5 5.0 1.1
Deviation 10.6 2.4 3.0 0.4 4.3 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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