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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20140381616
Observation time: 02/07/2014 38.67780 1616 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2014
Fractional day of year 38.677795
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 58561.5 ± 10.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 200.904
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 77.851
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -12.247
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0111
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0079
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 24.31, Infinity, -559.24
Event added to database
Wed Jun 11 01:22:33 2014
Event last processed
Wed Jun 11 02:50:19 2014
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
44.405 ± 1.742

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -325.8 ± 7.7 -404.4 ± 3.6
Vy GSE [km/s] -4.4 ± 5.4 -39.2 ± 11.3
Vz GSE [km/s] -46.9 ± 2.1 -65.4 ± 13.3
Wi [km/s] 15.8 ± 0.6 27.1 ± 2.7
We [km/s] 501.2 ± 18.5 857.5 ± 85.0
Ni [n/cc] 3.8 ± 0.3 8.8 ± 1.4
Bx GSE [nT] -1.4 ± 0.4 -4.6 ± 0.5
By GSE [nT] 2.2 ± 0.2 7.6 ± 3.0
Bz GSE [nT] 3.4 ± 0.6 4.9 ± 4.8
Plasma Beta
0.109 ± 0.109
0.118 ± 0.142
Sound Speed [km/s]
20.46 ± 0.76
35.01 ± 3.47
Alfven Speed [km/s]
48.08 ± 3.60
82.15 ± 12.38

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.892 ± 0.409 0.213 ± 0.847 -0.399 ± 0.377 -23.55 ± 52.48 166.60 ± 54.16
VC -0.894 ± 0.061 -0.398 ± 0.126 -0.208 ± 0.205 -12.00 ± 7.53 203.98 ± 8.02
MX1 -0.963 ± 0.067 -0.265 ± 0.229 -0.045 ± 0.045 -2.60 ± 29.08 195.40 ± 13.60
MX2 -0.898 ± 0.053 -0.369 ± 0.101 -0.239 ± 0.234 -13.80 ± 8.86 202.36 ± 6.39
MX3 -0.890 ± 0.052 -0.379 ± 0.103 -0.253 ± 0.248 -14.68 ± 6.78 203.07 ± 6.58
RH08 -0.985 ± 0.012 -0.078 ± 0.070 -0.151 ± 0.150 -8.68 ± 4.03 184.51 ± 4.07
RH09 -0.000 ± 0.035 -0.000 ± 0.000 -1.000 ± 0.000 -90.00 ± 2.00 0.00 ± 2.00
RH10 -0.244 ± 0.068 0.960 ± 0.020 -0.140 ± 0.139 -8.03 ± 4.02 104.29 ± 4.07
Average -0.721 -0.040 -0.304 -21.665 157.527
Median -0.892 -0.078 -0.208 -11.995 195.400
Deviation 0.377 0.458 0.299 28.273 71.849

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 85.4 ± 9.4 429.3 ± 4.9 2.30 ± 0.39
VC 85.6 ± 5.9 461.5 ± 8.0 2.30 ± 0.39
MX1 81.9 ± 6.0 474.0 ± 8.2 2.30 ± 0.39
MX2 85.1 ± 6.2 465.2 ± 7.7 2.30 ± 0.39
MX3 84.0 ± 6.2 463.1 ± 7.6 2.30 ± 0.39
RH08 80.8 ± 7.5 477.8 ± 6.7 2.30 ± 0.39
RH09 37.3 ± 9.2 85.9 ± 6.6 2.30 ± 0.39
RH10 62.9 ± 7.1 65.9 ± 25.3 2.30 ± 0.39
Average 75.4 365.3 2.30
Median 84.0 463.1 2.30
Deviation 17.1 179.3 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 120.9 ± 8.8 1.5 ± 0.1 3.8 ± 0.3 52.2 ± 3.6 80.56 ± 9.46 2.33 ± 0.34
VC 158.8 ± 5.1 1.5 ± 0.1 3.7 ± 0.3 52.2 ± 3.6 109.39 ± 8.35 3.05 ± 0.32
MX1 156.9 ± 6.0 2.7 ± 0.1 6.8 ± 0.5 52.2 ± 3.6 59.26 ± 4.90 3.02 ± 0.33
MX2 159.7 ± 5.4 1.6 ± 0.1 4.1 ± 0.3 52.2 ± 3.6 98.93 ± 7.69 3.07 ± 0.32
MX3 159.5 ± 5.3 2.0 ± 0.1 5.1 ± 0.4 52.2 ± 3.6 80.70 ± 6.23 3.07 ± 0.32
RH8 149.3 ± 7.4 3.0 ± 0.1 7.7 ± 0.6 52.2 ± 3.6 49.68 ± 4.68 2.88 ± 0.35
RH9 39.0 ± 2.1 15.7 ± 0.6 38.2 ± 2.9 49.8 ± 3.6 2.49 ± 0.24 0.79 ± 0.10
RH10 -16.1 ± 7.4 8.7 ± 0.4 21.9 ± 1.6 51.5 ± 3.6 -1.83 ± 0.79 -0.31 ± 0.13
Average 116.0 4.6 11.4 51.8 59.9 2.2
Median 156.9 2.7 6.8 52.2 80.6 3.0
Deviation 67.4 5.1 12.4 0.8 41.5 1.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 50.8 ± 10.4 2.6 ± 0.2 6.6 ± 1.0 89.5 ± 10.3 20.13 ± 5.63 0.56 ± 0.06
VC 70.9 ± 1.5 2.5 ± 0.2 6.3 ± 1.0 89.5 ± 10.3 28.80 ± 2.56 0.80 ± 0.07
MX1 71.2 ± 1.0 4.5 ± 0.3 11.6 ± 1.7 89.4 ± 10.3 15.85 ± 1.32 0.80 ± 0.08
MX2 71.9 ± 2.1 2.7 ± 0.2 7.1 ± 1.1 89.5 ± 10.3 26.27 ± 2.60 0.81 ± 0.07
MX3 71.7 ± 2.2 3.4 ± 0.2 8.6 ± 1.3 89.5 ± 10.3 21.41 ± 2.14 0.81 ± 0.06
RH8 66.4 ± 4.4 5.1 ± 0.3 13.1 ± 2.0 89.4 ± 10.3 13.05 ± 1.81 0.75 ± 0.05
RH9 20.5 ± 13.3 26.7 ± 2.2 65.3 ± 9.8 85.3 ± 11.3 0.80 ± 0.59 0.23 ± 0.12
RH10 -4.5 ± 13.3 14.8 ± 1.1 37.4 ± 5.6 88.3 ± 10.5 -0.26 ± 0.91 -0.06 ± 0.15
Average 52.4 7.8 19.5 88.8 15.8 0.6
Median 70.9 4.5 11.6 89.5 20.1 0.8
Deviation 29.0 8.7 21.2 1.5 10.8 0.3

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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