CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20150760400
Observation time: 03/17/2015 76.16668 0400 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2015
Fractional day of year 76.166684
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 14401.5 ± 80.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 252.852
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 54.339
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 12.569
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0017
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0585
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0015
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0491
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 10.06, 18.96, 26.62
Event added to database
Fri Apr 17 15:58:03 2015
Event last processed
Tue May 17 16:33:20 2016
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
44.474 ± 3.966

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -408.0 ± 5.1 -509.4 ± 6.5
Vy GSE [km/s] 9.7 ± 3.5 -37.9 ± 11.4
Vz GSE [km/s] -4.9 ± 3.4 31.6 ± 7.5
Wi [km/s] 25.5 ± 2.1 45.3 ± 5.0
We [km/s] 807.1 ± 67.3 1433.2 ± 157.8
Ni [n/cc] 16.4 ± 1.6 39.6 ± 6.1
Bx GSE [nT] -2.4 ± 0.5 0.0 ± 1.7
By GSE [nT] 3.9 ± 0.4 15.1 ± 1.9
Bz GSE [nT] 8.6 ± 0.5 19.8 ± 1.3
Plasma Beta
0.242 ± 0.237
0.277 ± 0.255
Sound Speed [km/s]
32.95 ± 2.75
58.51 ± 6.44
Alfven Speed [km/s]
52.39 ± 2.57
87.76 ± 8.38

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.720 ± 0.144 -0.399 ± 0.216 0.568 ± 0.497 34.59 ± 9.69 209.00 ± 16.81
VC -0.861 ± 0.049 -0.405 ± 0.097 0.308 ± 0.298 17.96 ± 4.07 205.20 ± 6.40
MX1 -0.837 ± 0.051 -0.283 ± 0.080 0.468 ± 0.430 27.90 ± 5.56 198.70 ± 5.40
MX2 -0.845 ± 0.048 -0.275 ± 0.078 0.458 ± 0.423 27.28 ± 5.37 198.05 ± 5.20
MX3 -0.849 ± 0.047 -0.271 ± 0.078 0.453 ± 0.419 26.92 ± 5.32 197.69 ± 5.19
RH08 -0.939 ± 0.012 -0.192 ± 0.033 0.285 ± 0.277 16.55 ± 2.00 191.53 ± 2.00
RH09 -0.162 ± 0.076 -0.686 ± 0.030 0.709 ± 0.556 45.19 ± 2.03 256.71 ± 6.32
RH10 -0.983 ± 0.013 0.060 ± 0.070 0.173 ± 0.171 9.97 ± 4.03 176.49 ± 4.10
Average -0.775 -0.306 0.428 25.796 204.172
Median -0.845 -0.275 0.458 27.279 198.695
Deviation 0.259 0.211 0.170 11.076 23.362

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 58.8 ± 2.7 476.7 ± 2.7 2.45 ± 0.46
VC 71.3 ± 3.0 543.7 ± 2.9 2.45 ± 0.46
MX1 59.7 ± 3.0 530.5 ± 3.0 2.45 ± 0.46
MX2 59.9 ± 3.1 534.0 ± 3.0 2.45 ± 0.46
MX3 60.1 ± 3.1 536.1 ± 3.0 2.45 ± 0.46
RH08 66.1 ± 3.3 572.7 ± 3.2 2.45 ± 0.46
RH09 66.9 ± 2.1 186.5 ± 1.5 2.45 ± 0.46
RH10 65.4 ± 3.5 571.8 ± 51.5 2.45 ± 0.46
Average 63.5 494.0 2.45
Median 65.4 536.1 2.45
Deviation 4.5 127.8 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 189.5 ± 3.7 14.8 ± 0.9 27.1 ± 1.3 60.2 ± 2.1 12.83 ± 0.86 3.15 ± 0.12
VC 197.9 ± 4.5 9.0 ± 0.5 16.8 ± 0.8 61.3 ± 2.1 22.04 ± 1.52 3.23 ± 0.13
MX1 193.9 ± 4.0 14.4 ± 0.8 26.4 ± 1.3 60.3 ± 2.1 13.50 ± 0.92 3.22 ± 0.12
MX2 194.1 ± 4.0 14.3 ± 0.8 26.3 ± 1.3 60.3 ± 2.1 13.61 ± 0.93 3.22 ± 0.12
MX3 194.3 ± 4.1 14.3 ± 0.8 26.1 ± 1.3 60.3 ± 2.1 13.68 ± 0.93 3.23 ± 0.12
RH8 192.7 ± 4.5 11.4 ± 0.7 21.2 ± 1.0 60.9 ± 2.1 16.91 ± 1.17 3.17 ± 0.13
RH9 130.5 ± 3.6 11.1 ± 0.6 20.6 ± 1.0 61.0 ± 2.1 11.81 ± 0.77 2.14 ± 0.10
RH10 170.9 ± 4.7 11.8 ± 0.7 21.8 ± 1.1 60.8 ± 2.1 14.53 ± 1.04 2.81 ± 0.12
Average 183.0 12.6 23.3 60.6 14.9 3.0
Median 193.9 14.3 26.1 60.8 13.7 3.2
Deviation 22.8 2.1 3.7 0.4 3.3 0.4

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 76.9 ± 4.7 25.8 ± 2.1 45.4 ± 4.3 102.5 ± 7.6 2.99 ± 0.27 0.75 ± 0.06
VC 80.2 ± 3.9 15.7 ± 1.3 28.2 ± 2.7 104.5 ± 7.6 5.14 ± 0.47 0.77 ± 0.06
MX1 78.6 ± 3.8 25.1 ± 2.1 44.3 ± 4.2 102.7 ± 7.6 3.15 ± 0.30 0.77 ± 0.06
MX2 78.7 ± 3.8 24.9 ± 2.0 44.0 ± 4.2 102.7 ± 7.6 3.17 ± 0.31 0.77 ± 0.06
MX3 78.8 ± 3.7 24.8 ± 2.0 43.8 ± 4.2 102.7 ± 7.6 3.19 ± 0.31 0.77 ± 0.06
RH8 78.0 ± 4.1 19.9 ± 1.6 35.5 ± 3.4 103.8 ± 7.6 3.95 ± 0.43 0.76 ± 0.07
RH9 55.6 ± 10.2 19.3 ± 1.6 34.5 ± 3.3 103.9 ± 7.6 2.88 ± 0.46 0.53 ± 0.09
RH10 67.8 ± 6.3 20.6 ± 1.7 36.6 ± 3.5 103.7 ± 7.6 3.33 ± 0.49 0.66 ± 0.09
Average 74.3 22.0 39.0 103.3 3.5 0.7
Median 78.6 24.8 43.8 103.7 3.2 0.8
Deviation 8.5 3.7 6.2 0.8 0.7 0.1

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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