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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20052360824
Observation time: 08/24/2005 236.35026 0824 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2005
Fractional day of year 236.350260
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 30262.5 ± 10.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 230.839
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -98.861
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 2.989
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0078
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0091
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 67.12, Infinity, -6547.94
Event added to database
Mon Mar 5 17:47:48 2012
Event last processed
Tue Sep 24 09:23:11 2013
Method selected
RH10
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
-26.397 ± 842.461

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -556.3 ± 4.8 -600.4 ± 17.4
Vy GSE [km/s] -23.8 ± 4.2 -71.2 ± 30.2
Vz GSE [km/s] 15.6 ± 10.9 83.3 ± 31.3
Wi [km/s] 31.7 ± 0.4 70.0 ± 14.3
We [km/s] 1002.4 ± 13.4 2212.3 ± 450.7
Ni [n/cc] 42.6 ± 4.9 19.1 ± 13.0
Bx GSE [nT] 12.7 ± 3.1 16.9 ± 1.6
By GSE [nT] 4.3 ± 3.9 47.5 ± 3.9
Bz GSE [nT] 30.1 ± 0.4 8.6 ± 3.1
Plasma Beta
0.082 ± 0.081
0.088 ± 0.071
Sound Speed [km/s]
40.92 ± 0.55
90.32 ± 18.40
Alfven Speed [km/s]
111.02 ± 1.90
287.04 ± 98.03

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.421 ± 0.048 -0.374 ± 0.046 -0.826 ± 0.548 -55.70 ± 3.86 221.59 ± 3.73
VC -0.503 ± 0.137 -0.481 ± 0.137 0.718 ± 0.557 45.87 ± 11.14 223.74 ± 11.13
MX1 -0.611 ± 0.081 -0.312 ± 0.070 -0.728 ± 0.559 -46.69 ± 6.63 207.04 ± 5.44
MX2 -0.941 ± 0.392 0.192 ± 1.272 0.279 ± 0.271 16.17 ± 61.57 168.44 ± 77.35
MX3 -0.690 ± 0.190 0.398 ± 0.220 0.604 ± 0.517 37.16 ± 16.48 150.03 ± 16.77
RH08 -0.840 ± 0.038 -0.111 ± 0.070 -0.531 ± 0.474 -32.05 ± 4.01 187.52 ± 4.78
RH09 -0.000 ± 0.035 -0.000 ± 0.000 -1.000 ± 0.000 -90.00 ± 2.00 0.00 ± 2.00
RH10 0.201 ± 0.068 0.885 ± 0.032 -0.419 ± 0.393 -24.77 ± 3.98 77.21 ± 4.37
Average -0.476 0.025 -0.238 -18.752 154.448
Median -0.503 -0.000 -0.419 -24.771 187.521
Deviation 0.397 0.456 0.673 47.745 78.562

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 15.6 ± 7.0 242.8 ± 12.0 0.46 ± 0.32
VC 66.3 ± 7.6 245.7 ± 116.6 0.46 ± 0.32
MX1 20.2 ± 7.4 331.7 ± 9.5 0.46 ± 0.32
MX2 85.3 ± 3.9 496.9 ± 57.5 0.46 ± 0.32
MX3 70.3 ± 3.0 347.8 ± 51.8 0.46 ± 0.32
RH08 35.1 ± 4.8 451.2 ± 17.9 0.46 ± 0.32
RH09 24.1 ± 6.7 37.3 ± 73.3 0.46 ± 0.32
RH10 78.9 ± 7.5 -95.8 ± 308.2 0.46 ± 0.32
Average 49.5 257.2 0.46
Median 66.3 331.7 0.46
Deviation 28.6 200.8 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 12.3 ± 9.9 39.2 ± 0.5 106.9 ± 1.8 111.6 ± 1.9 0.31 ± 0.25 0.11 ± 0.09
VC -56.9 ± 6.9 15.6 ± 0.2 44.6 ± 0.8 117.3 ± 1.9 -3.65 ± 0.43 -0.49 ± 0.06
MX1 -4.2 ± 9.9 38.1 ± 0.5 104.2 ± 1.8 112.0 ± 1.9 -0.11 ± 0.26 -0.04 ± 0.09
MX2 -26.4 ± 2.3 3.1 ± 0.0 9.0 ± 0.2 118.3 ± 1.9 -8.46 ± 0.72 -0.22 ± 0.02
MX3 -36.3 ± 2.7 13.0 ± 0.2 37.4 ± 0.6 117.6 ± 1.9 -2.79 ± 0.18 -0.31 ± 0.02
RH8 -10.6 ± 9.4 32.7 ± 0.4 90.8 ± 1.6 113.7 ± 1.9 -0.32 ± 0.29 -0.09 ± 0.08
RH9 53.0 ± 10.9 36.9 ± 0.5 101.3 ± 1.7 112.4 ± 1.9 1.43 ± 0.29 0.47 ± 0.10
RH10 43.6 ± 6.7 7.4 ± 0.1 21.5 ± 0.4 118.1 ± 1.9 5.87 ± 0.90 0.37 ± 0.06
Average -3.2 23.2 64.5 115.1 -1.0 -0.0
Median -4.2 32.7 90.8 117.3 -0.1 -0.0
Deviation 38.1 15.0 40.5 2.9 4.2 0.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 31.9 ± 21.6 86.4 ± 17.3 276.5 ± 94.4 288.5 ± 97.0 0.36 ± 0.20 0.11 ± 0.07
VC -150.4 ± 40.6 34.1 ± 6.2 115.4 ± 39.4 301.0 ± 90.0 -4.36 ± 0.62 -0.56 ± 0.30
MX1 3.4 ± 20.3 83.8 ± 16.7 269.4 ± 92.0 289.5 ± 96.4 0.03 ± 0.22 0.00 ± 0.08
MX2 -77.6 ± 16.4 6.8 ± 1.2 23.3 ± 8.0 303.1 ± 89.0 -11.34 ± 1.30 -0.28 ± 0.14
MX3 -88.7 ± 17.6 28.5 ± 5.1 96.6 ± 33.0 301.6 ± 89.7 -3.11 ± 0.06 -0.32 ± 0.13
RH8 -16.9 ± 16.9 71.8 ± 13.8 234.9 ± 80.2 293.3 ± 94.0 -0.25 ± 0.23 -0.07 ± 0.09
RH9 120.7 ± 31.3 81.1 ± 16.0 262.0 ± 89.5 290.4 ± 95.8 1.48 ± 0.11 0.46 ± 0.22
RH10 122.8 ± 39.5 16.3 ± 2.9 55.5 ± 19.0 302.7 ± 89.2 7.43 ± 1.64 0.46 ± 0.27
Average -6.9 51.1 166.7 296.2 -1.2 -0.0
Median 3.4 71.8 234.9 301.0 0.0 0.0
Deviation 97.9 33.0 104.7 6.4 5.4 0.4

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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