CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 19973050614
Observation time: 11/01/1997 305.26023 0614 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 1997
Fractional day of year 305.260226
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 22483.5 ± 6.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 93.637
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -61.544
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 8.683
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0214
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0006
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0188
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 29.19, 34.39, 42.46
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:05:12 2005
Event last processed
Mon Mar 30 17:11:38 2009
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
22.860 ± 4.328

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -335.9 ± 0.3 -352.6 ± 1.4
Vy GSE [km/s] -23.5 ± 0.4 -28.8 ± 0.6
Vz GSE [km/s] -0.4 ± 0.4 -7.5 ± 0.6
Wi [km/s] 15.3 ± 0.1 18.8 ± 0.4
We [km/s] 483.7 ± 3.9 596.0 ± 12.2
Ni [n/cc] 29.5 ± 0.3 43.8 ± 1.1
Bx GSE [nT] -2.2 ± 0.1 -4.6 ± 0.4
By GSE [nT] 3.9 ± 0.1 4.9 ± 0.2
Bz GSE [nT] 3.8 ± 0.2 6.7 ± 0.5
Plasma Beta
0.423 ± 0.423
0.364 ± 0.370
Sound Speed [km/s]
19.75 ± 0.16
24.33 ± 0.50
Alfven Speed [km/s]
23.53 ± 0.25
31.35 ± 1.89

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.359 ± 0.164 -0.933 ± 0.063 0.021 ± 0.021 1.23 ± 7.47 248.96 ± 10.06
VC -0.884 ± 0.016 -0.277 ± 0.022 -0.377 ± 0.358 -22.12 ± 2.24 197.40 ± 1.40
MX1 -0.774 ± 0.035 -0.399 ± 0.061 -0.491 ± 0.447 -29.42 ± 1.90 207.26 ± 4.52
MX2 -0.780 ± 0.031 -0.371 ± 0.054 -0.505 ± 0.457 -30.31 ± 2.20 205.45 ± 3.95
MX3 -0.785 ± 0.029 -0.333 ± 0.046 -0.522 ± 0.469 -31.48 ± 2.62 202.97 ± 3.26
RH08 -0.746 ± 0.007 -0.125 ± 0.014 -0.654 ± 0.539 -40.82 ± 0.60 189.53 ± 1.06
RH09 -0.661 ± 0.040 0.275 ± 0.076 -0.698 ± 0.553 -44.29 ± 2.21 157.44 ± 6.52
RH10 -0.674 ± 0.051 0.240 ± 0.070 -0.698 ± 0.553 -44.29 ± 3.90 160.45 ± 5.75
Average -0.708 -0.241 -0.490 -30.188 196.182
Median -0.746 -0.277 -0.505 -30.309 202.971
Deviation 0.157 0.386 0.236 14.953 28.944

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 62.1 ± 0.9 177.2 ± 4.1 1.48 ± 0.04
VC 84.8 ± 1.4 362.9 ± 6.4 1.48 ± 0.04
MX1 73.4 ± 1.4 327.7 ± 6.3 1.48 ± 0.04
MX2 74.1 ± 1.4 328.9 ± 6.3 1.48 ± 0.04
MX3 75.0 ± 1.5 329.9 ± 6.3 1.48 ± 0.04
RH08 77.3 ± 1.8 309.2 ± 6.0 1.48 ± 0.04
RH09 89.1 ± 2.1 260.7 ± 4.8 1.48 ± 0.04
RH10 88.0 ± 2.1 267.4 ± 5.0 1.48 ± 0.04
Average 78.0 295.5 1.48
Median 77.3 327.7 1.48
Deviation 9.0 58.6 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 34.7 ± 0.4 7.3 ± 0.0 11.0 ± 0.1 29.8 ± 0.2 4.76 ± 0.05 1.16 ± 0.01
VC 59.4 ± 0.4 1.4 ± 0.0 2.1 ± 0.0 30.7 ± 0.2 43.65 ± 0.32 1.94 ± 0.02
MX1 58.1 ± 0.4 4.4 ± 0.0 6.7 ± 0.1 30.4 ± 0.2 13.28 ± 0.11 1.91 ± 0.02
MX2 58.1 ± 0.4 4.2 ± 0.0 6.5 ± 0.1 30.4 ± 0.2 13.88 ± 0.11 1.91 ± 0.02
MX3 58.2 ± 0.4 3.9 ± 0.0 6.1 ± 0.1 30.5 ± 0.2 14.78 ± 0.12 1.91 ± 0.02
RH8 55.4 ± 0.4 3.3 ± 0.0 5.2 ± 0.1 30.5 ± 0.2 16.54 ± 0.15 1.81 ± 0.02
RH9 44.9 ± 0.3 0.2 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0 30.7 ± 0.2 184.91 ± 1.96 1.46 ± 0.02
RH10 46.2 ± 0.3 0.5 ± 0.0 0.8 ± 0.0 30.7 ± 0.2 89.42 ± 0.93 1.51 ± 0.02
Average 51.9 3.2 4.8 30.5 47.7 1.7
Median 58.1 3.9 6.1 30.5 16.5 1.9
Deviation 9.0 2.4 3.6 0.3 61.9 0.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 23.9 ± 1.1 9.3 ± 0.3 14.7 ± 0.9 38.6 ± 1.8 2.59 ± 0.20 0.62 ± 0.05
VC 40.5 ± 1.5 1.7 ± 0.1 2.8 ± 0.2 39.7 ± 1.8 23.45 ± 1.66 1.02 ± 0.08
MX1 39.5 ± 1.4 5.6 ± 0.2 9.0 ± 0.5 39.3 ± 1.8 7.13 ± 0.50 1.01 ± 0.08
MX2 39.5 ± 1.4 5.3 ± 0.2 8.6 ± 0.5 39.3 ± 1.8 7.45 ± 0.52 1.01 ± 0.08
MX3 39.6 ± 1.4 5.0 ± 0.2 8.1 ± 0.5 39.4 ± 1.8 7.93 ± 0.56 1.01 ± 0.08
RH8 37.6 ± 1.3 4.3 ± 0.1 6.9 ± 0.4 39.5 ± 1.8 8.86 ± 0.61 0.95 ± 0.07
RH9 30.3 ± 0.9 0.3 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 39.7 ± 1.8 98.48 ± 6.54 0.77 ± 0.06
RH10 31.2 ± 1.0 0.7 ± 0.0 1.1 ± 0.1 39.7 ± 1.8 47.65 ± 3.17 0.79 ± 0.06
Average 35.3 4.0 6.5 39.4 25.4 0.9
Median 39.5 5.0 8.1 39.5 8.9 1.0
Deviation 6.1 3.0 4.8 0.4 32.9 0.2

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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