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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20141581612
Observation time: 06/07/2014 158.67491 1611 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2014
Fractional day of year 158.674913
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 58312.5 ± 60.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 214.356
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -94.810
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 1.395
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0260
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0266
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 22.94, 35.81, 46.04
Event added to database
Fri Sep 5 11:56:30 2014
Event last processed
Mon Sep 8 15:08:52 2014
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
-1927.363 ± 32068.813

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -346.7 ± 4.0 -405.7 ± 1.4
Vy GSE [km/s] -9.6 ± 2.6 -15.9 ± 6.5
Vz GSE [km/s] 4.8 ± 4.6 81.1 ± 5.5
Wi [km/s] 26.7 ± 1.4 35.2 ± 2.3
We [km/s] 842.8 ± 43.4 1114.6 ± 73.6
Ni [n/cc] 6.7 ± 0.6 13.9 ± 0.7
Bx GSE [nT] 1.7 ± 0.5 9.0 ± 0.6
By GSE [nT] -5.0 ± 0.3 -7.7 ± 1.4
Bz GSE [nT] 0.9 ± 0.4 9.1 ± 1.0
Plasma Beta
0.346 ± 0.343
0.161 ± 0.157
Sound Speed [km/s]
34.41 ± 1.77
45.50 ± 3.00
Alfven Speed [km/s]
45.71 ± 2.88
88.14 ± 2.20

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.987 ± 0.195 0.132 ± 1.448 0.092 ± 0.091 5.26 ± 17.87 172.40 ± 84.06
VC -0.614 ± 0.043 -0.065 ± 0.069 0.787 ± 0.559 51.87 ± 3.13 186.04 ± 6.38
MX1 -0.696 ± 0.068 0.257 ± 0.152 0.670 ± 0.545 42.09 ± 3.56 159.73 ± 12.46
MX2 -0.745 ± 0.032 0.034 ± 0.082 0.666 ± 0.544 41.77 ± 2.72 177.40 ± 6.32
MX3 -0.753 ± 0.033 -0.024 ± 0.072 0.657 ± 0.541 41.10 ± 2.83 181.84 ± 5.49
RH08 0.028 ± 0.032 0.922 ± 0.013 0.385 ± 0.365 22.67 ± 2.00 88.25 ± 2.00
RH09 -0.141 ± 0.069 0.863 ± 0.031 0.486 ± 0.444 29.08 ± 3.51 99.28 ± 4.57
RH10 -0.036 ± 0.069 0.907 ± 0.029 0.419 ± 0.393 24.77 ± 3.98 92.26 ± 4.37
Average -0.493 0.378 0.520 32.327 144.646
Median -0.614 0.257 0.657 41.105 172.395
Deviation 0.385 0.441 0.223 14.817 43.343

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 65.0 ± 6.2 461.9 ± 2.0 2.09 ± 0.16
VC 89.7 ± 6.1 397.9 ± 2.9 2.09 ± 0.16
MX1 69.4 ± 6.1 412.5 ± 2.8 2.09 ± 0.16
MX2 80.8 ± 6.3 438.3 ± 2.8 2.09 ± 0.16
MX3 83.7 ± 6.4 442.0 ± 2.8 2.09 ± 0.16
RH08 38.4 ± 2.4 25.0 ± 1.8 2.09 ± 0.16
RH09 40.1 ± 2.8 117.0 ± 2.0 2.09 ± 0.16
RH10 38.3 ± 2.4 58.6 ± 15.1 2.09 ± 0.16
Average 63.2 294.2 2.09
Median 69.4 412.5 2.09
Deviation 21.5 190.8 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 120.5 ± 4.1 11.9 ± 0.4 19.3 ± 1.2 56.0 ± 2.2 10.17 ± 0.45 2.16 ± 0.13
VC 180.6 ± 5.1 0.2 ± 0.0 0.3 ± 0.0 57.3 ± 2.2 1085.05 ± 56.38 3.16 ± 0.20
MX1 170.3 ± 5.1 9.8 ± 0.3 16.1 ± 1.0 56.4 ± 2.2 17.43 ± 0.92 3.02 ± 0.20
MX2 177.1 ± 5.0 4.4 ± 0.2 7.3 ± 0.5 57.1 ± 2.2 40.34 ± 2.05 3.11 ± 0.19
MX3 177.5 ± 5.0 3.0 ± 0.1 5.0 ± 0.3 57.2 ± 2.2 58.93 ± 2.95 3.11 ± 0.19
RH8 41.8 ± 3.5 23.6 ± 0.9 35.8 ± 2.3 52.2 ± 2.2 1.78 ± 0.20 0.80 ± 0.10
RH9 74.1 ± 3.9 22.9 ± 0.8 35.0 ± 2.2 52.5 ± 2.2 3.24 ± 0.26 1.42 ± 0.13
RH10 52.9 ± 3.6 23.6 ± 0.9 35.9 ± 2.3 52.2 ± 2.2 2.25 ± 0.22 1.02 ± 0.11
Average 124.3 12.4 19.3 55.1 152.4 2.2
Median 170.3 11.9 19.3 56.4 17.4 3.0
Deviation 60.2 9.8 14.7 2.4 377.4 1.0

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 56.1 ± 1.5 17.4 ± 0.9 37.3 ± 0.9 97.7 ± 2.1 3.24 ± 0.14 0.57 ± 0.01
VC 83.9 ± 3.5 0.2 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 99.2 ± 2.2 342.71 ± 22.62 0.85 ± 0.03
MX1 79.7 ± 4.4 14.3 ± 0.7 31.0 ± 0.8 98.2 ± 2.1 5.57 ± 0.35 0.81 ± 0.04
MX2 82.6 ± 3.2 6.5 ± 0.3 14.1 ± 0.4 99.0 ± 2.2 12.79 ± 0.76 0.83 ± 0.03
MX3 82.7 ± 2.9 4.4 ± 0.2 9.7 ± 0.2 99.1 ± 2.2 18.68 ± 1.11 0.83 ± 0.03
RH8 19.9 ± 7.5 33.6 ± 1.9 69.0 ± 1.7 93.3 ± 2.0 0.59 ± 0.20 0.21 ± 0.08
RH9 34.2 ± 7.5 32.8 ± 1.8 67.5 ± 1.7 93.7 ± 2.0 1.04 ± 0.20 0.36 ± 0.08
RH10 24.6 ± 7.5 33.7 ± 1.9 69.1 ± 1.7 93.3 ± 2.0 0.73 ± 0.20 0.26 ± 0.08
Average 58.0 17.9 37.3 96.7 48.2 0.6
Median 79.7 17.4 37.3 98.2 5.6 0.8
Deviation 28.0 13.9 28.3 2.7 119.2 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 Wed Jan 22 21:47:00 2020
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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