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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20151560831
Observation time: 06/05/2015 156.35495 0831 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2015
Fractional day of year 156.354948
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 30667.5 ± 130.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 208.161
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -84.126
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -2.083
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0166
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0203
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 17.27, 36.93, 40.77
Event added to database
Thu Jan 28 16:59:07 2016
Event last processed
Tue May 17 16:55:44 2016
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
70.273 ± 1.287

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -276.8 ± 1.3 -292.0 ± 0.7
Vy GSE [km/s] 0.6 ± 1.4 0.8 ± 0.3
Vz GSE [km/s] -8.4 ± 1.1 -11.3 ± 1.1
Wi [km/s] 19.8 ± 0.4 21.7 ± 0.3
We [km/s] 626.8 ± 13.2 687.2 ± 9.8
Ni [n/cc] 6.7 ± 0.2 9.5 ± 0.2
Bx GSE [nT] -0.4 ± 0.4 0.6 ± 0.3
By GSE [nT] 1.2 ± 0.5 3.0 ± 0.1
Bz GSE [nT] 2.2 ± 0.2 1.6 ± 0.3
Plasma Beta
0.827 ± 0.857
0.779 ± 0.767
Sound Speed [km/s]
25.59 ± 0.54
28.05 ± 0.40
Alfven Speed [km/s]
21.81 ± 0.40
24.67 ± 0.81

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.713 ± 0.615 0.374 ± 0.774 0.594 ± 0.511 36.42 ± 52.31 152.31 ± 58.88
VC -0.982 ± 0.018 0.014 ± 0.083 -0.187 ± 0.184 -10.75 ± 5.48 179.19 ± 4.85
MX1 -0.971 ± 0.198 0.238 ± 0.801 0.031 ± 0.031 1.78 ± 50.69 166.22 ± 47.28
MX2 -0.892 ± 0.099 0.451 ± 0.196 0.026 ± 0.026 1.48 ± 9.92 153.19 ± 12.60
MX3 -0.890 ± 0.061 0.336 ± 0.153 -0.309 ± 0.299 -17.99 ± 3.98 159.32 ± 9.86
RH08 -0.987 ± 0.003 0.113 ± 0.021 -0.117 ± 0.117 -6.74 ± 0.85 173.48 ± 1.20
RH09 -0.743 ± 0.047 0.513 ± 0.060 -0.430 ± 0.401 -25.48 ± 4.00 145.40 ± 4.41
RH10 -0.780 ± 0.044 0.518 ± 0.060 -0.352 ± 0.337 -20.61 ± 4.02 146.41 ± 4.30
Average -0.870 0.319 -0.093 -5.236 159.440
Median -0.890 0.374 -0.117 -6.737 159.319
Deviation 0.111 0.185 0.325 19.533 12.479

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 38.7 ± 6.9 223.8 ± 0.5 1.41 ± 0.06
VC 89.4 ± 8.1 326.5 ± 0.6 1.41 ± 0.06
MX1 73.9 ± 7.3 319.1 ± 0.5 1.41 ± 0.06
MX2 69.0 ± 6.6 294.5 ± 0.6 1.41 ± 0.06
MX3 88.8 ± 6.7 299.0 ± 0.7 1.41 ± 0.06
RH08 84.5 ± 7.7 326.9 ± 0.6 1.41 ± 0.06
RH09 88.8 ± 7.0 253.5 ± 0.8 1.41 ± 0.06
RH10 87.0 ± 6.9 264.3 ± 4.5 1.41 ± 0.06
Average 77.5 288.5 1.41
Median 87.0 299.0 1.41
Deviation 17.4 37.8 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 31.4 ± 0.9 14.3 ± 0.2 17.0 ± 0.3 30.4 ± 0.4 2.19 ± 0.08 1.03 ± 0.04
VC 53.0 ± 1.2 0.2 ± 0.0 0.2 ± 0.0 33.6 ± 0.4 318.57 ± 10.28 1.58 ± 0.05
MX1 50.6 ± 1.2 4.6 ± 0.0 6.0 ± 0.1 33.3 ± 0.4 10.90 ± 0.35 1.52 ± 0.05
MX2 47.5 ± 1.1 6.1 ± 0.1 7.8 ± 0.1 33.1 ± 0.4 7.84 ± 0.25 1.44 ± 0.04
MX3 50.0 ± 1.2 0.4 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 33.6 ± 0.4 140.80 ± 4.46 1.49 ± 0.04
RH8 52.7 ± 1.2 1.6 ± 0.0 2.1 ± 0.0 33.6 ± 0.4 33.34 ± 1.07 1.57 ± 0.05
RH9 43.9 ± 1.3 0.3 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 33.6 ± 0.4 125.58 ± 4.40 1.31 ± 0.04
RH10 45.2 ± 1.3 0.9 ± 0.0 1.2 ± 0.0 33.6 ± 0.4 51.25 ± 1.74 1.34 ± 0.04
Average 46.8 3.5 4.4 33.1 86.3 1.4
Median 50.0 1.6 2.1 33.6 51.2 1.5
Deviation 7.0 4.9 5.8 1.1 107.8 0.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 22.2 ± 1.1 16.0 ± 0.3 19.3 ± 0.6 33.8 ± 0.5 1.39 ± 0.05 0.66 ± 0.03
VC 37.5 ± 0.5 0.2 ± 0.0 0.2 ± 0.0 37.4 ± 0.6 202.05 ± 2.83 1.00 ± 0.01
MX1 35.8 ± 0.7 5.2 ± 0.1 6.8 ± 0.2 37.0 ± 0.6 6.92 ± 0.09 0.97 ± 0.01
MX2 33.9 ± 0.7 6.8 ± 0.1 8.9 ± 0.3 36.7 ± 0.6 5.01 ± 0.07 0.92 ± 0.01
MX3 35.5 ± 0.4 0.4 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 37.4 ± 0.6 89.58 ± 1.46 0.95 ± 0.01
RH8 37.3 ± 0.6 1.8 ± 0.0 2.3 ± 0.1 37.3 ± 0.6 21.16 ± 0.28 1.00 ± 0.01
RH9 31.3 ± 0.4 0.4 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 37.4 ± 0.6 80.14 ± 1.67 0.84 ± 0.01
RH10 32.2 ± 0.4 1.0 ± 0.0 1.3 ± 0.0 37.4 ± 0.6 32.74 ± 0.60 0.86 ± 0.01
Average 33.2 4.0 5.0 36.8 54.9 0.9
Median 35.5 1.8 2.3 37.4 32.7 0.9
Deviation 5.0 5.4 6.6 1.2 68.4 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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