CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 19960991308
Observation time: 04/08/1996 99.54790 1308 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 1996
Fractional day of year 99.547899
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 47338.5 ± 3.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 82.153
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 27.368
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -2.770
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0009
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0264
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0009
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0255
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 4.39, 7.57, 8.19
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:02:27 2005
Event last processed
Mon Mar 30 16:12:56 2009
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
27.576 ± 6.049

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -298.0 ± 4.1 -317.8 ± 2.0
Vy GSE [km/s] -17.7 ± 3.1 -25.0 ± 2.9
Vz GSE [km/s] 0.0 ± 8.5 21.3 ± 3.1
Wi [km/s] 17.3 ± 0.6 18.6 ± 0.5
We [km/s] 547.5 ± 19.0 587.9 ± 15.0
Ni [n/cc] 17.8 ± 0.3 25.3 ± 0.8
Bx GSE [nT] -2.2 ± 0.8 -3.5 ± 0.4
By GSE [nT] 4.6 ± 0.4 9.5 ± 0.2
Bz GSE [nT] 0.6 ± 1.3 1.6 ± 0.6
Plasma Beta
0.407 ± 0.379
0.175 ± 0.174
Sound Speed [km/s]
22.35 ± 0.78
24.00 ± 0.61
Alfven Speed [km/s]
27.47 ± 2.56
44.62 ± 1.89

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.865 ± 0.361 -0.375 ± 0.640 0.334 ± 0.321 19.51 ± 43.86 203.45 ± 41.89
VC -0.688 ± 0.119 -0.237 ± 0.119 0.685 ± 0.550 43.27 ± 9.97 199.00 ± 9.40
MX1 -0.643 ± 0.163 -0.360 ± 0.257 0.676 ± 0.547 42.53 ± 7.86 209.27 ± 22.55
MX2 -0.671 ± 0.149 -0.352 ± 0.241 0.653 ± 0.539 40.75 ± 8.03 207.70 ± 20.27
MX3 -0.694 ± 0.141 -0.347 ± 0.231 0.631 ± 0.530 39.11 ± 8.50 206.54 ± 18.71
RH08 -0.803 ± 0.010 -0.106 ± 0.008 -0.587 ± 0.508 -35.92 ± 0.95 187.52 ± 0.54
RH09 -0.840 ± 0.038 -0.111 ± 0.070 -0.531 ± 0.474 -32.05 ± 4.01 187.52 ± 4.78
RH10 -0.819 ± 0.040 -0.108 ± 0.070 -0.564 ± 0.495 -34.35 ± 4.00 187.52 ± 4.87
Average -0.753 -0.250 0.162 10.356 198.566
Median -0.694 -0.237 0.631 39.109 203.450
Deviation 0.087 0.124 0.609 37.590 9.648

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 86.9 ± 12.8 356.2 ± 21.5 1.42 ± 0.03
VC 82.1 ± 16.1 314.9 ± 24.5 1.42 ± 0.03
MX1 89.6 ± 16.1 302.9 ± 24.5 1.42 ± 0.03
MX2 88.6 ± 15.9 310.4 ± 24.3 1.42 ± 0.03
MX3 87.9 ± 15.7 316.7 ± 24.2 1.42 ± 0.03
RH08 79.8 ± 3.2 255.4 ± 12.5 1.42 ± 0.03
RH09 78.9 ± 2.6 273.6 ± 12.3 1.42 ± 0.03
RH10 79.5 ± 2.9 263.1 ± 12.4 1.42 ± 0.03
Average 84.2 299.2 1.42
Median 86.9 310.4 1.42
Deviation 4.5 33.4 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 91.8 ± 7.2 0.9 ± 0.0 1.5 ± 0.1 35.4 ± 2.0 99.62 ± 11.71 2.61 ± 0.34
VC 105.4 ± 9.1 2.4 ± 0.1 3.8 ± 0.4 35.4 ± 2.0 44.22 ± 5.51 3.00 ± 0.41
MX1 104.9 ± 9.1 0.1 ± 0.0 0.2 ± 0.0 35.5 ± 2.0 798.59 ± 100.14 2.98 ± 0.41
MX2 104.3 ± 9.0 0.4 ± 0.0 0.7 ± 0.1 35.5 ± 2.0 249.67 ± 31.20 2.96 ± 0.41
MX3 103.7 ± 8.9 0.6 ± 0.0 1.0 ± 0.1 35.5 ± 2.0 163.47 ± 20.36 2.94 ± 0.40
RH8 14.3 ± 2.1 3.1 ± 0.1 4.8 ± 0.5 35.3 ± 2.0 4.65 ± 0.61 0.40 ± 0.05
RH9 21.2 ± 1.7 3.3 ± 0.1 5.3 ± 0.5 35.3 ± 2.0 6.36 ± 0.50 0.60 ± 0.05
RH10 17.3 ± 1.9 3.2 ± 0.1 5.0 ± 0.5 35.3 ± 2.0 5.45 ± 0.55 0.49 ± 0.05
Average 70.4 1.8 2.8 35.4 171.5 2.0
Median 103.7 2.4 3.8 35.4 99.6 2.9
Deviation 44.0 1.4 2.2 0.1 268.2 1.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 64.9 ± 2.0 1.1 ± 0.0 2.4 ± 0.1 50.7 ± 1.4 57.38 ± 1.91 1.28 ± 0.07
VC 75.5 ± 1.7 2.9 ± 0.0 6.2 ± 0.3 50.6 ± 1.4 25.83 ± 0.70 1.49 ± 0.07
MX1 75.2 ± 1.6 0.2 ± 0.0 0.3 ± 0.0 50.7 ± 1.4 466.42 ± 12.33 1.49 ± 0.06
MX2 74.6 ± 1.6 0.5 ± 0.0 1.1 ± 0.0 50.7 ± 1.4 145.49 ± 3.86 1.47 ± 0.06
MX3 74.0 ± 1.6 0.8 ± 0.0 1.6 ± 0.1 50.7 ± 1.4 95.09 ± 2.53 1.46 ± 0.06
RH8 10.1 ± 3.2 3.7 ± 0.1 7.9 ± 0.3 50.5 ± 1.4 2.70 ± 0.86 0.20 ± 0.06
RH9 15.1 ± 3.2 4.1 ± 0.1 8.6 ± 0.4 50.5 ± 1.4 3.71 ± 0.77 0.30 ± 0.06
RH10 12.3 ± 3.2 3.9 ± 0.1 8.2 ± 0.3 50.5 ± 1.4 3.18 ± 0.82 0.24 ± 0.06
Average 50.2 2.1 4.5 50.6 100.0 1.0
Median 74.0 2.9 6.2 50.7 57.4 1.5
Deviation 31.4 1.7 3.5 0.1 156.7 0.6

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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