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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20151141817
Observation time: 04/24/2015 114.76238 1817 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2015
Fractional day of year 114.762378
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 65869.5 ± 110.0
Shock type NN
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 250.521
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -68.045
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 16.836
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0159
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0114
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 20.18, 25.96, 33.81
Event added to database
Thu Jan 28 14:29:23 2016
Event last processed
Tue May 17 16:46:00 2016
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
22.936 ± 5.851

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -352.9 ± 0.6 -369.8 ± 0.5
Vy GSE [km/s] -20.8 ± 2.4 -8.6 ± 1.4
Vz GSE [km/s] -1.0 ± 3.3 8.8 ± 0.2
Wi [km/s] 21.8 ± 1.0 27.9 ± 0.1
We [km/s] 690.0 ± 31.6 882.2 ± 4.4
Ni [n/cc] 2.8 ± 0.2 4.1 ± 0.1
Bx GSE [nT] -4.3 ± 0.1 -3.3 ± 0.1
By GSE [nT] 1.6 ± 0.2 0.5 ± 0.1
Bz GSE [nT] -0.0 ± 0.2 -2.3 ± 0.0
Plasma Beta
0.134 ± 0.133
0.412 ± 0.413
Sound Speed [km/s]
28.17 ± 1.29
36.01 ± 0.18
Alfven Speed [km/s]
59.85 ± 1.80
43.48 ± 0.29

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.869 ± 0.026 0.170 ± 0.036 -0.464 ± 0.427 -27.65 ± 3.21 168.92 ± 2.36
VC -0.738 ± 0.062 0.531 ± 0.075 0.417 ± 0.391 24.62 ± 5.82 144.26 ± 5.53
MX1 -0.894 ± 0.024 0.100 ± 0.074 -0.437 ± 0.407 -25.89 ± 2.93 173.64 ± 4.76
MX2 -0.866 ± 0.026 0.178 ± 0.036 -0.467 ± 0.430 -27.85 ± 3.16 168.37 ± 2.38
MX3 -0.813 ± 0.037 0.292 ± 0.060 -0.504 ± 0.456 -30.26 ± 3.62 160.24 ± 4.13
RH08 -0.420 ± 0.032 -0.850 ± 0.017 0.318 ± 0.307 18.57 ± 1.40 243.68 ± 2.15
RH09 -0.405 ± 0.060 -0.857 ± 0.032 0.318 ± 0.307 18.57 ± 2.82 244.68 ± 4.00
RH10 -0.405 ± 0.062 -0.857 ± 0.033 0.318 ± 0.307 18.57 ± 3.09 244.68 ± 4.13
Average -0.676 -0.162 -0.062 -3.915 193.559
Median -0.738 0.170 0.318 18.568 173.638
Deviation 0.225 0.588 0.435 25.756 42.957

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 28.9 ± 3.3 339.2 ± 1.9 1.41 ± 0.07
VC 28.8 ± 3.5 322.9 ± 2.2 1.41 ± 0.07
MX1 29.2 ± 3.5 348.5 ± 1.9 1.41 ± 0.07
MX2 28.9 ± 3.3 337.9 ± 1.9 1.41 ± 0.07
MX3 29.9 ± 2.9 317.7 ± 1.9 1.41 ± 0.07
RH08 85.3 ± 2.0 166.1 ± 1.1 1.41 ± 0.07
RH09 86.2 ± 2.0 159.9 ± 1.1 1.41 ± 0.07
RH10 86.2 ± 2.0 159.9 ± 4.3 1.41 ± 0.07
Average 50.4 269.0 1.41
Median 29.9 322.9 1.41
Deviation 29.4 89.2 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 35.4 ± 1.2 23.9 ± 1.0 52.4 ± 1.6 61.7 ± 1.6 1.48 ± 0.06 0.57 ± 0.02
VC 73.9 ± 2.8 24.0 ± 1.0 52.4 ± 1.6 61.7 ± 1.6 3.09 ± 0.22 1.20 ± 0.04
MX1 34.6 ± 1.2 23.8 ± 1.0 52.2 ± 1.6 61.7 ± 1.6 1.45 ± 0.06 0.56 ± 0.02
MX2 35.5 ± 1.2 23.9 ± 1.0 52.4 ± 1.6 61.7 ± 1.6 1.49 ± 0.06 0.58 ± 0.02
MX3 36.4 ± 1.3 23.6 ± 1.0 51.9 ± 1.6 61.8 ± 1.6 1.54 ± 0.07 0.59 ± 0.02
RH8 0.4 ± 1.3 2.1 ± 0.1 4.9 ± 0.1 66.1 ± 1.4 0.18 ± 0.61 0.01 ± 0.02
RH9 -0.7 ± 1.3 1.7 ± 0.1 4.0 ± 0.1 66.1 ± 1.4 -0.40 ± 0.78 -0.01 ± 0.02
RH10 -0.7 ± 1.3 1.7 ± 0.1 4.0 ± 0.1 66.1 ± 1.4 -0.40 ± 0.78 -0.01 ± 0.02
Average 26.9 15.6 34.3 63.4 1.1 0.4
Median 35.4 23.8 52.2 61.8 1.5 0.6
Deviation 26.0 11.4 24.8 2.3 1.2 0.4

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 23.2 ± 0.3 27.9 ± 0.1 38.1 ± 0.3 49.1 ± 0.3 0.83 ± 0.01 0.47 ± 0.01
VC 50.9 ± 0.4 28.0 ± 0.1 38.1 ± 0.3 49.0 ± 0.3 1.82 ± 0.02 1.04 ± 0.01
MX1 22.6 ± 0.4 27.8 ± 0.1 37.9 ± 0.2 49.1 ± 0.3 0.81 ± 0.01 0.46 ± 0.01
MX2 23.3 ± 0.3 27.9 ± 0.1 38.1 ± 0.3 49.1 ± 0.3 0.83 ± 0.01 0.47 ± 0.01
MX3 24.0 ± 0.1 27.5 ± 0.1 37.7 ± 0.2 49.3 ± 0.3 0.87 ± 0.01 0.49 ± 0.00
RH8 0.6 ± 1.3 2.3 ± 0.0 3.6 ± 0.0 56.4 ± 0.3 0.27 ± 0.58 0.01 ± 0.02
RH9 -0.1 ± 1.3 1.8 ± 0.0 2.9 ± 0.0 56.4 ± 0.3 -0.06 ± 0.73 -0.00 ± 0.02
RH10 -0.1 ± 1.3 1.8 ± 0.0 2.9 ± 0.0 56.4 ± 0.3 -0.06 ± 0.73 -0.00 ± 0.02
Average 18.1 18.1 24.9 51.9 0.7 0.4
Median 23.2 27.8 37.9 49.3 0.8 0.5
Deviation 17.5 13.4 18.0 3.8 0.6 0.4

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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