CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 19971451349
Observation time: 05/25/1997 145.57634 1349 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 1997
Fractional day of year 145.576337
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 49795.5 ± 3.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 155.854
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 14.612
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 8.838
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0293
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0241
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 6.18, 16.28, 22.19
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:04:46 2005
Event last processed
Mon Mar 30 16:59:53 2009
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
43.188 ± 1.881

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -292.9 ± 1.5 -318.3 ± 2.9
Vy GSE [km/s] 1.0 ± 0.6 -1.7 ± 1.5
Vz GSE [km/s] -12.6 ± 0.8 -20.6 ± 2.0
Wi [km/s] 26.4 ± 0.4 29.4 ± 0.4
We [km/s] 835.1 ± 12.5 931.0 ± 12.3
Ni [n/cc] 9.3 ± 0.2 13.6 ± 0.3
Bx GSE [nT] -1.0 ± 0.3 -1.5 ± 0.7
By GSE [nT] 3.7 ± 0.2 5.3 ± 0.4
Bz GSE [nT] 2.6 ± 0.2 4.4 ± 0.5
Plasma Beta
0.627 ± 0.624
0.487 ± 0.495
Sound Speed [km/s]
34.09 ± 0.51
38.01 ± 0.50
Alfven Speed [km/s]
33.36 ± 0.61
42.25 ± 1.32

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.934 ± 0.294 -0.350 ± 0.780 0.075 ± 0.074 4.28 ± 25.45 200.54 ± 47.84
VC -0.947 ± 0.031 -0.096 ± 0.054 -0.306 ± 0.297 -17.85 ± 5.75 185.81 ± 3.23
MX1 -0.970 ± 0.043 -0.028 ± 0.192 -0.243 ± 0.238 -14.09 ± 9.94 181.68 ± 11.37
MX2 -0.968 ± 0.046 -0.019 ± 0.168 -0.248 ± 0.243 -14.39 ± 10.55 181.13 ± 9.97
MX3 -0.967 ± 0.051 -0.009 ± 0.145 -0.254 ± 0.248 -14.72 ± 11.40 180.53 ± 8.57
RH08 -0.976 ± 0.003 -0.009 ± 0.009 -0.218 ± 0.214 -12.58 ± 0.73 180.50 ± 0.54
RH09 -0.571 ± 0.048 0.563 ± 0.048 -0.598 ± 0.514 -36.71 ± 3.65 135.38 ± 4.05
RH10 -0.627 ± 0.055 0.537 ± 0.059 -0.564 ± 0.495 -34.35 ± 4.00 139.39 ± 4.87
Average -0.870 0.074 -0.295 -17.551 173.119
Median -0.947 -0.009 -0.248 -14.386 181.126
Deviation 0.169 0.315 0.212 12.987 23.060

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 87.6 ± 4.9 349.9 ± 10.1 1.46 ± 0.06
VC 87.3 ± 3.9 366.9 ± 8.0 1.46 ± 0.06
MX1 87.3 ± 4.0 372.8 ± 8.2 1.46 ± 0.06
MX2 87.0 ± 4.0 372.6 ± 8.2 1.46 ± 0.06
MX3 86.7 ± 3.9 372.1 ± 8.1 1.46 ± 0.06
RH08 85.5 ± 4.0 374.1 ± 8.3 1.46 ± 0.06
RH09 76.1 ± 2.4 232.4 ± 3.9 1.46 ± 0.06
RH10 75.5 ± 2.4 252.3 ± 4.0 1.46 ± 0.06
Average 84.1 336.6 1.46
Median 87.0 372.1 1.46
Deviation 5.2 58.9 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 77.7 ± 1.5 1.0 ± 0.0 1.4 ± 0.0 47.7 ± 0.6 78.80 ± 1.68 1.63 ± 0.04
VC 85.8 ± 1.3 1.1 ± 0.0 1.6 ± 0.0 47.7 ± 0.6 77.12 ± 1.48 1.80 ± 0.03
MX1 85.8 ± 1.3 1.1 ± 0.0 1.6 ± 0.0 47.7 ± 0.6 75.51 ± 1.47 1.80 ± 0.04
MX2 85.8 ± 1.3 1.2 ± 0.0 1.7 ± 0.0 47.7 ± 0.6 69.05 ± 1.34 1.80 ± 0.04
MX3 85.7 ± 1.3 1.4 ± 0.0 1.9 ± 0.0 47.7 ± 0.6 63.19 ± 1.23 1.80 ± 0.04
RH8 85.6 ± 1.3 1.9 ± 0.0 2.6 ± 0.0 47.7 ± 0.6 45.36 ± 0.89 1.80 ± 0.04
RH9 57.2 ± 0.7 5.8 ± 0.1 8.0 ± 0.1 47.4 ± 0.6 9.92 ± 0.21 1.21 ± 0.03
RH10 61.2 ± 0.7 6.0 ± 0.1 8.3 ± 0.2 47.3 ± 0.6 10.17 ± 0.21 1.29 ± 0.03
Average 78.1 2.4 3.4 47.6 53.6 1.6
Median 85.7 1.4 1.9 47.7 69.1 1.8
Deviation 12.0 2.2 3.0 0.2 28.9 0.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 53.6 ± 3.1 1.2 ± 0.0 1.7 ± 0.1 56.8 ± 0.9 45.94 ± 3.12 0.94 ± 0.07
VC 59.0 ± 2.3 1.3 ± 0.0 2.0 ± 0.1 56.8 ± 0.9 44.79 ± 2.24 1.04 ± 0.05
MX1 59.1 ± 2.4 1.3 ± 0.0 2.0 ± 0.1 56.8 ± 0.9 43.94 ± 2.26 1.04 ± 0.05
MX2 59.2 ± 2.4 1.5 ± 0.0 2.2 ± 0.1 56.8 ± 0.9 40.20 ± 2.06 1.04 ± 0.05
MX3 59.0 ± 2.4 1.6 ± 0.0 2.4 ± 0.1 56.8 ± 0.9 36.77 ± 1.87 1.04 ± 0.05
RH8 59.0 ± 2.5 2.2 ± 0.0 3.3 ± 0.1 56.8 ± 0.9 26.41 ± 1.38 1.04 ± 0.06
RH9 39.4 ± 1.2 6.8 ± 0.1 10.2 ± 0.3 56.4 ± 0.9 5.77 ± 0.18 0.70 ± 0.02
RH10 42.1 ± 1.2 7.1 ± 0.1 10.6 ± 0.3 56.4 ± 0.9 5.91 ± 0.19 0.75 ± 0.02
Average 53.8 2.9 4.3 56.7 31.2 0.9
Median 59.0 1.6 2.4 56.8 40.2 1.0
Deviation 8.3 2.5 3.8 0.2 16.8 0.1

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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