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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20120572058
Observation time: 02/26/2012 57.87411 2058 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2012
Fractional day of year 57.874115
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 75523.5 ± 20.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 201.890
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 74.757
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -13.146
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0099
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0084
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 72.41, Infinity, -1277.67
Event added to database
Thu Sep 19 12:19:41 2013
Event last processed
Mon Oct 7 14:03:00 2013
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
63.616 ± 20.004

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -406.5 ± 4.5 -500.3 ± 11.8
Vy GSE [km/s] -15.6 ± 3.1 -50.0 ± 0.2
Vz GSE [km/s] -18.7 ± 1.4 -48.8 ± 2.8
Wi [km/s] 31.6 ± 2.9 68.6 ± 3.5
We [km/s] 998.2 ± 91.0 2170.9 ± 110.1
Ni [n/cc] 3.3 ± 0.4 11.1 ± 0.7
Bx GSE [nT] 2.6 ± 0.7 5.3 ± 0.9
By GSE [nT] 0.6 ± 0.7 -2.7 ± 0.6
Bz GSE [nT] -1.7 ± 0.1 -0.9 ± 1.8
Plasma Beta
0.684 ± 0.651
2.934 ± 2.500
Sound Speed [km/s]
40.75 ± 3.71
88.63 ± 4.49
Alfven Speed [km/s]
38.49 ± 4.28
40.86 ± 4.14

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.712 ± 0.076 -0.397 ± 0.089 0.580 ± 0.504 35.44 ± 6.83 209.13 ± 6.62
VC -0.897 ± 0.021 -0.333 ± 0.047 -0.291 ± 0.282 -16.90 ± 2.49 200.35 ± 3.01
MX1 -0.866 ± 0.321 -0.498 ± 0.554 0.050 ± 0.050 2.87 ± 49.68 209.92 ± 36.64
MX2 -0.672 ± 0.217 -0.644 ± 0.227 -0.366 ± 0.349 -21.47 ± 2.40 223.81 ± 19.30
MX3 -0.757 ± 0.156 -0.625 ± 0.189 -0.191 ± 0.189 -11.03 ± 5.97 219.56 ± 14.26
RH08 -0.376 ± 0.064 -0.384 ± 0.064 0.844 ± 0.539 57.52 ± 3.95 225.63 ± 7.39
RH09 -0.000 ± 0.035 -0.000 ± 0.000 -1.000 ± 0.000 -90.00 ± 2.00 0.00 ± 2.00
RH10 -0.496 ± 0.061 0.848 ± 0.037 -0.184 ± 0.182 -10.62 ± 4.00 120.33 ± 4.11
Average -0.597 -0.254 -0.070 -6.773 176.091
Median -0.672 -0.384 -0.184 -10.624 209.920
Deviation 0.298 0.489 0.573 43.568 78.887

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 17.4 ± 7.6 378.2 ± 4.8 3.36 ± 0.38
VC 51.4 ± 5.3 523.4 ± 6.3 3.36 ± 0.38
MX1 35.7 ± 0.8 497.7 ± 6.0 3.36 ± 0.38
MX2 61.8 ± 2.2 425.1 ± 5.0 3.36 ± 0.38
MX3 51.1 ± 2.2 460.3 ± 5.5 3.36 ± 0.38
RH08 33.5 ± 11.7 179.5 ± 2.7 3.36 ± 0.38
RH09 58.1 ± 5.1 62.7 ± 1.6 3.36 ± 0.38
RH10 83.7 ± 17.6 225.6 ± 8.3 3.36 ± 0.38
Average 49.1 344.1 3.36
Median 51.4 425.1 3.36
Deviation 20.3 167.9 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 93.6 ± 1.4 32.9 ± 2.8 36.7 ± 4.1 45.5 ± 4.0 2.86 ± 0.28 2.07 ± 0.21
VC 148.0 ± 3.5 18.4 ± 1.6 24.0 ± 2.7 53.0 ± 4.6 8.08 ± 0.83 2.81 ± 0.29
MX1 139.0 ± 2.5 25.4 ± 2.2 31.3 ± 3.5 50.0 ± 4.4 5.50 ± 0.55 2.80 ± 0.29
MX2 135.2 ± 2.0 13.6 ± 1.2 18.2 ± 2.0 54.4 ± 4.7 10.00 ± 1.01 2.50 ± 0.26
MX3 139.3 ± 2.2 18.6 ± 1.6 24.1 ± 2.7 52.9 ± 4.6 7.55 ± 0.76 2.65 ± 0.27
RH8 36.6 ± 0.6 26.3 ± 2.3 32.1 ± 3.6 49.5 ± 4.3 1.40 ± 0.13 0.74 ± 0.07
RH9 44.0 ± 1.4 15.3 ± 1.3 20.3 ± 2.3 54.0 ± 4.7 2.89 ± 0.32 0.82 ± 0.09
RH10 33.6 ± 4.9 3.1 ± 0.3 4.2 ± 0.5 56.0 ± 4.9 10.97 ± 1.95 0.60 ± 0.10
Average 96.1 19.2 23.9 51.9 6.2 1.9
Median 135.2 18.6 24.1 53.0 7.6 2.5
Deviation 50.8 9.1 10.1 3.4 3.5 1.0

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 30.7 ± 9.2 38.5 ± 3.8 39.0 ± 4.0 89.7 ± 4.2 0.79 ± 0.20 0.34 ± 0.12
VC 43.8 ± 10.3 23.8 ± 2.0 25.5 ± 2.6 94.7 ± 3.0 1.84 ± 0.39 0.46 ± 0.12
MX1 42.2 ± 10.3 31.8 ± 2.9 33.2 ± 3.4 92.3 ± 3.5 1.33 ± 0.28 0.46 ± 0.12
MX2 39.1 ± 7.7 17.8 ± 1.4 19.3 ± 2.0 96.1 ± 2.7 2.20 ± 0.40 0.41 ± 0.09
MX3 41.1 ± 8.8 24.0 ± 2.0 25.6 ± 2.6 94.7 ± 3.0 1.72 ± 0.33 0.44 ± 0.10
RH8 13.6 ± 5.8 32.8 ± 3.0 34.1 ± 3.5 92.0 ± 3.6 0.41 ± 0.15 0.15 ± 0.07
RH9 13.9 ± 2.8 20.0 ± 1.6 21.6 ± 2.2 95.6 ± 2.8 0.71 ± 0.21 0.15 ± 0.02
RH10 10.6 ± 5.5 4.1 ± 0.3 4.5 ± 0.5 97.6 ± 2.5 2.59 ± 1.24 0.11 ± 0.06
Average 29.4 24.1 25.3 94.1 1.4 0.3
Median 39.1 24.0 25.6 94.7 1.7 0.4
Deviation 14.4 10.7 10.7 2.6 0.8 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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