CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20150990908
Observation time: 04/09/2015 99.38120 0908 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2015
Fractional day of year 99.381198
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 32935.5 ± 20.0
Shock type NN
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 259.693
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -22.894
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 18.186
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0006
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0172
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0167
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 5.27, 5.97, 6.33
Event added to database
Thu Jan 28 14:20:48 2016
Event last processed
Tue May 17 16:41:54 2016
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
70.912 ± 2.402

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -334.4 ± 0.4 -349.3 ± 6.6
Vy GSE [km/s] 8.4 ± 2.6 3.2 ± 7.0
Vz GSE [km/s] 15.8 ± 2.4 36.1 ± 4.3
Wi [km/s] 32.6 ± 1.7 38.0 ± 2.5
We [km/s] 1030.1 ± 53.1 1200.7 ± 78.0
Ni [n/cc] 8.0 ± 0.4 11.0 ± 0.9
Bx GSE [nT] -5.3 ± 0.3 -5.6 ± 1.7
By GSE [nT] -0.4 ± 0.7 3.4 ± 2.0
Bz GSE [nT] -1.8 ± 0.2 -2.9 ± 0.8
Plasma Beta
0.565 ± 0.571
0.590 ± 0.510
Sound Speed [km/s]
42.05 ± 2.17
49.02 ± 3.19
Alfven Speed [km/s]
43.45 ± 1.73
49.76 ± 1.81

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.903 ± 0.130 -0.315 ± 0.354 -0.293 ± 0.284 -17.03 ± 8.43 199.22 ± 22.43
VC -0.604 ± 0.137 -0.150 ± 0.244 0.783 ± 0.559 51.54 ± 9.31 193.94 ± 23.01
MX1 -0.948 ± 0.263 0.052 ± 0.572 0.315 ± 0.304 18.38 ± 47.54 176.89 ± 34.60
MX2 -0.770 ± 0.288 0.079 ± 0.321 0.634 ± 0.531 39.32 ± 26.00 174.13 ± 23.79
MX3 -0.624 ± 0.167 0.083 ± 0.280 0.777 ± 0.560 50.96 ± 12.08 172.46 ± 25.62
RH08 -0.952 ± 0.011 0.265 ± 0.035 0.151 ± 0.150 8.68 ± 1.91 164.46 ± 2.11
RH09 -0.944 ± 0.022 0.280 ± 0.065 0.173 ± 0.171 9.97 ± 3.64 163.45 ± 3.91
RH10 -0.951 ± 0.021 0.264 ± 0.067 0.162 ± 0.161 9.32 ± 3.90 164.46 ± 4.03
Average -0.837 0.070 0.338 21.394 176.127
Median -0.903 0.083 0.315 18.380 174.134
Deviation 0.150 0.213 0.372 23.987 13.637

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 14.7 ± 7.0 328.3 ± 3.6 1.38 ± 0.18
VC 70.9 ± 2.4 311.1 ± 3.1 1.38 ± 0.18
MX1 38.2 ± 3.1 399.4 ± 2.4 1.38 ± 0.18
MX2 59.0 ± 3.0 361.4 ± 2.7 1.38 ± 0.18
MX3 70.5 ± 3.0 317.3 ± 2.8 1.38 ± 0.18
RH08 33.9 ± 5.3 382.9 ± 1.8 1.38 ± 0.18
RH09 35.5 ± 5.3 381.6 ± 1.8 1.38 ± 0.18
RH10 34.4 ± 5.3 383.4 ± 10.0 1.38 ± 0.18
Average 44.6 358.2 1.38
Median 38.2 381.6 1.38
Deviation 20.0 34.4 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 33.6 ± 1.1 36.8 ± 1.4 42.0 ± 1.7 48.0 ± 1.5 0.92 ± 0.06 0.70 ± 0.04
VC 98.1 ± 1.9 10.0 ± 0.3 14.2 ± 0.6 59.7 ± 2.0 9.80 ± 0.40 1.65 ± 0.07
MX1 77.1 ± 0.7 26.3 ± 0.9 34.1 ± 1.4 54.5 ± 1.8 2.93 ± 0.10 1.42 ± 0.05
MX2 93.4 ± 1.4 16.1 ± 0.6 22.4 ± 0.9 58.3 ± 1.9 5.79 ± 0.20 1.60 ± 0.06
MX3 95.5 ± 1.7 10.2 ± 0.4 14.5 ± 0.6 59.6 ± 2.0 9.37 ± 0.34 1.60 ± 0.06
RH8 59.8 ± 0.8 28.4 ± 1.0 36.1 ± 1.4 53.4 ± 1.7 2.11 ± 0.06 1.12 ± 0.03
RH9 60.8 ± 0.8 27.6 ± 1.0 35.4 ± 1.4 53.8 ± 1.8 2.20 ± 0.06 1.13 ± 0.03
RH10 60.6 ± 0.8 28.1 ± 1.0 35.8 ± 1.4 53.6 ± 1.7 2.16 ± 0.06 1.13 ± 0.03
Average 72.4 22.9 29.3 55.1 4.4 1.3
Median 77.1 27.6 35.4 54.5 2.9 1.4
Deviation 22.7 9.7 10.7 3.9 3.5 0.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 24.5 ± 7.0 42.3 ± 0.7 48.1 ± 1.7 55.7 ± 1.2 0.58 ± 0.16 0.44 ± 0.12
VC 72.4 ± 7.3 11.6 ± 0.2 16.3 ± 0.6 69.0 ± 1.4 6.27 ± 0.62 1.05 ± 0.10
MX1 56.8 ± 7.1 30.4 ± 0.5 39.1 ± 1.4 63.0 ± 1.3 1.87 ± 0.23 0.90 ± 0.11
MX2 69.5 ± 7.1 18.6 ± 0.3 25.6 ± 0.9 67.4 ± 1.3 3.73 ± 0.38 1.03 ± 0.10
MX3 70.9 ± 6.7 11.8 ± 0.2 16.6 ± 0.6 68.9 ± 1.4 6.02 ± 0.58 1.03 ± 0.10
RH8 43.9 ± 5.9 32.7 ± 0.6 41.3 ± 1.5 61.8 ± 1.3 1.34 ± 0.18 0.71 ± 0.09
RH9 44.7 ± 5.9 31.9 ± 0.6 40.5 ± 1.5 62.2 ± 1.3 1.40 ± 0.18 0.72 ± 0.09
RH10 44.6 ± 5.9 32.4 ± 0.6 41.1 ± 1.5 61.9 ± 1.3 1.37 ± 0.18 0.72 ± 0.09
Average 53.4 26.5 33.6 63.7 2.8 0.8
Median 56.8 31.9 40.5 63.0 1.9 0.9
Deviation 17.0 11.1 12.3 4.5 2.2 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 Wed Jan 22 21:47:00 2020
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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