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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 19971460909
Observation time: 05/26/1997 146.38134 0909 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 1997
Fractional day of year 146.381337
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 32947.5 ± 3.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 152.331
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 15.924
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 8.013
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0286
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0306
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 7.58, 14.67, 15.44
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:04:50 2005
Event last processed
Mon Mar 30 17:01:59 2009
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
47.518 ± 1.702

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -283.0 ± 0.5 -304.9 ± 0.9
Vy GSE [km/s] -6.1 ± 0.5 -15.0 ± 1.5
Vz GSE [km/s] -17.7 ± 0.9 -31.0 ± 1.1
Wi [km/s] 14.0 ± 0.3 18.0 ± 0.4
We [km/s] 442.2 ± 9.1 569.7 ± 13.8
Ni [n/cc] 13.8 ± 0.3 25.2 ± 0.7
Bx GSE [nT] -2.0 ± 0.1 -2.6 ± 0.4
By GSE [nT] 2.3 ± 0.1 3.8 ± 0.9
Bz GSE [nT] -0.4 ± 0.3 2.6 ± 1.0
Plasma Beta
0.583 ± 0.578
0.581 ± 0.594
Sound Speed [km/s]
18.05 ± 0.37
23.26 ± 0.56
Alfven Speed [km/s]
18.33 ± 0.50
23.69 ± 1.08

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.667 ± 0.116 0.604 ± 0.123 -0.437 ± 0.407 -25.94 ± 10.59 137.85 ± 9.45
VC -0.809 ± 0.032 -0.327 ± 0.048 -0.488 ± 0.445 -29.22 ± 3.27 201.97 ± 3.28
MX1 -0.870 ± 0.121 0.375 ± 0.268 -0.319 ± 0.308 -18.62 ± 7.11 156.70 ± 17.62
MX2 -0.971 ± 0.022 0.019 ± 0.108 -0.237 ± 0.233 -13.72 ± 5.31 178.90 ± 6.35
MX3 -0.977 ± 0.024 -0.147 ± 0.102 -0.156 ± 0.155 -8.97 ± 6.71 188.57 ± 5.98
RH08 -0.978 ± 0.003 -0.026 ± 0.009 -0.207 ± 0.204 -11.93 ± 0.86 181.50 ± 0.54
RH09 -0.838 ± 0.036 0.495 ± 0.057 -0.229 ± 0.225 -13.24 ± 3.81 149.42 ± 3.85
RH10 -0.942 ± 0.022 0.335 ± 0.061 0.028 ± 0.028 1.60 ± 3.82 160.45 ± 3.72
Average -0.882 0.166 -0.256 -15.004 169.419
Median -0.870 0.335 -0.229 -13.241 178.905
Deviation 0.109 0.332 0.163 9.717 21.718

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 20.1 ± 4.2 226.0 ± 2.6 1.82 ± 0.05
VC 70.1 ± 1.6 300.2 ± 2.8 1.82 ± 0.05
MX1 28.0 ± 1.6 294.6 ± 2.3 1.82 ± 0.05
MX2 47.8 ± 1.3 333.2 ± 2.5 1.82 ± 0.05
MX3 57.2 ± 1.5 335.3 ± 2.8 1.82 ± 0.05
RH08 50.3 ± 1.3 335.2 ± 2.6 1.82 ± 0.05
RH09 19.8 ± 1.3 276.6 ± 2.2 1.82 ± 0.05
RH10 31.1 ± 2.8 303.0 ± 2.2 1.82 ± 0.05
Average 40.5 300.5 1.82
Median 47.8 303.0 1.82
Deviation 18.5 37.1 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 33.3 ± 0.6 14.7 ± 0.3 17.2 ± 0.5 21.1 ± 0.4 2.26 ± 0.04 1.58 ± 0.03
VC 60.5 ± 0.8 4.4 ± 0.1 6.2 ± 0.2 25.3 ± 0.5 13.61 ± 0.25 2.39 ± 0.04
MX1 44.9 ± 0.5 13.2 ± 0.3 16.2 ± 0.4 22.1 ± 0.4 3.39 ± 0.06 2.04 ± 0.04
MX2 54.2 ± 0.6 9.3 ± 0.2 12.3 ± 0.3 24.0 ± 0.5 5.86 ± 0.11 2.26 ± 0.04
MX3 55.3 ± 0.6 7.3 ± 0.1 9.9 ± 0.3 24.7 ± 0.5 7.62 ± 0.16 2.24 ± 0.05
RH8 54.6 ± 0.6 8.7 ± 0.2 11.7 ± 0.3 24.2 ± 0.5 6.25 ± 0.12 2.26 ± 0.04
RH9 38.4 ± 0.4 14.8 ± 0.3 17.3 ± 0.5 21.1 ± 0.4 2.60 ± 0.05 1.83 ± 0.03
RH10 39.0 ± 0.3 12.6 ± 0.3 15.7 ± 0.4 22.4 ± 0.4 3.09 ± 0.07 1.74 ± 0.04
Average 47.5 10.6 13.3 23.1 5.6 2.0
Median 54.2 12.6 15.7 24.0 5.9 2.2
Deviation 9.9 3.8 4.0 1.7 3.8 0.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 18.2 ± 1.2 19.0 ± 0.5 22.3 ± 1.0 27.2 ± 0.8 0.96 ± 0.08 0.67 ± 0.05
VC 33.3 ± 0.7 5.7 ± 0.2 8.1 ± 0.4 32.7 ± 0.9 5.82 ± 0.22 1.02 ± 0.04
MX1 24.9 ± 0.9 17.1 ± 0.5 20.9 ± 1.0 28.5 ± 0.8 1.46 ± 0.08 0.88 ± 0.05
MX2 29.9 ± 0.7 11.9 ± 0.3 15.9 ± 0.7 31.0 ± 0.8 2.51 ± 0.12 0.97 ± 0.04
MX3 30.4 ± 0.8 9.4 ± 0.3 12.8 ± 0.6 31.9 ± 0.9 3.26 ± 0.15 0.96 ± 0.04
RH8 30.2 ± 0.8 11.3 ± 0.3 15.1 ± 0.7 31.2 ± 0.9 2.68 ± 0.12 0.97 ± 0.04
RH9 21.4 ± 1.0 19.1 ± 0.5 22.3 ± 1.0 27.2 ± 0.8 1.12 ± 0.07 0.79 ± 0.05
RH10 21.7 ± 0.8 16.3 ± 0.4 20.3 ± 0.9 28.9 ± 0.8 1.33 ± 0.08 0.75 ± 0.05
Average 26.3 13.7 17.2 29.8 2.4 0.9
Median 29.9 16.3 20.3 31.0 2.5 1.0
Deviation 5.4 4.9 5.1 2.1 1.6 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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