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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20180080602
Observation time: 01/08/2018 8.25172 0602 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2018
Fractional day of year 8.251719
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 21748.5 ± 40.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 205.874
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 92.115
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -7.269
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0217
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0242
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 8.05, 14.32, 14.78
Event added to database
Tue Feb 20 10:38:18 2018
Event last processed
Fri Apr 20 10:11:48 2018
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
47.082 ± 8.487

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -305.7 ± 2.7 -339.6 ± 2.9
Vy GSE [km/s] -13.7 ± 4.6 -6.1 ± 2.2
Vz GSE [km/s] -25.5 ± 4.8 -52.4 ± 2.2
Wi [km/s] 19.1 ± 0.9 26.4 ± 1.1
We [km/s] 605.0 ± 27.3 835.0 ± 34.9
Ni [n/cc] 21.1 ± 0.9 45.4 ± 1.8
Bx GSE [nT] 0.2 ± 0.3 -2.0 ± 1.7
By GSE [nT] -6.4 ± 0.5 -12.9 ± 1.0
Bz GSE [nT] 6.2 ± 0.7 5.1 ± 1.5
Plasma Beta
0.206 ± 0.185
0.334 ± 0.345
Sound Speed [km/s]
24.70 ± 1.12
34.09 ± 1.42
Alfven Speed [km/s]
42.42 ± 2.39
45.91 ± 2.17

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.269 ± 0.177 0.351 ± 0.174 -0.897 ± 0.492 -63.78 ± 10.80 127.45 ± 23.61
VC -0.774 ± 0.086 0.167 ± 0.096 -0.610 ± 0.520 -37.61 ± 8.04 167.85 ± 6.94
MX1 -0.693 ± 0.152 0.314 ± 0.145 -0.649 ± 0.537 -40.47 ± 13.56 155.62 ± 10.81
MX2 -0.702 ± 0.104 0.315 ± 0.112 -0.639 ± 0.533 -39.71 ± 9.15 155.84 ± 8.46
MX3 -0.720 ± 0.101 0.316 ± 0.110 -0.618 ± 0.524 -38.15 ± 9.09 156.33 ± 8.19
RH08 -0.837 ± 0.014 0.202 ± 0.028 -0.508 ± 0.459 -30.56 ± 1.38 166.46 ± 1.90
RH09 -0.980 ± 0.014 0.026 ± 0.071 -0.196 ± 0.193 -11.28 ± 3.96 178.50 ± 4.14
RH10 -0.983 ± 0.013 0.026 ± 0.071 -0.184 ± 0.182 -10.62 ± 4.00 178.50 ± 4.11
Average -0.745 0.214 -0.538 -34.023 160.818
Median -0.720 0.314 -0.610 -37.614 166.462
Deviation 0.225 0.132 0.241 17.180 16.438

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 28.5 ± 3.5 167.2 ± 0.7 2.16 ± 0.11
VC 55.9 ± 1.3 332.2 ± 0.7 2.16 ± 0.11
MX1 46.3 ± 1.3 305.1 ± 0.7 2.16 ± 0.11
MX2 46.8 ± 1.3 307.8 ± 0.7 2.16 ± 0.11
MX3 47.9 ± 1.3 312.8 ± 0.7 2.16 ± 0.11
RH08 58.9 ± 1.3 347.7 ± 0.7 2.16 ± 0.11
RH09 79.8 ± 1.8 377.0 ± 0.8 2.16 ± 0.11
RH10 80.2 ± 1.8 376.8 ± 5.6 2.16 ± 0.11
Average 55.5 315.8 2.16
Median 55.9 332.2 2.16
Deviation 17.6 66.6 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 67.0 ± 2.2 20.7 ± 0.8 37.3 ± 2.1 44.5 ± 2.1 3.25 ± 0.15 1.51 ± 0.11
VC 82.2 ± 1.4 12.3 ± 0.4 23.8 ± 1.3 47.5 ± 2.0 6.67 ± 0.20 1.73 ± 0.07
MX1 81.1 ± 1.0 15.5 ± 0.5 29.3 ± 1.6 46.6 ± 2.0 5.23 ± 0.16 1.74 ± 0.07
MX2 81.3 ± 1.0 15.4 ± 0.5 29.0 ± 1.6 46.6 ± 2.0 5.30 ± 0.16 1.75 ± 0.07
MX3 81.3 ± 1.0 15.0 ± 0.5 28.5 ± 1.6 46.8 ± 2.0 5.42 ± 0.17 1.74 ± 0.07
RH8 81.6 ± 1.3 11.3 ± 0.4 21.9 ± 1.2 47.8 ± 1.9 7.22 ± 0.21 1.71 ± 0.06
RH9 72.7 ± 2.0 3.8 ± 0.1 7.5 ± 0.4 49.0 ± 1.9 19.13 ± 0.62 1.48 ± 0.04
RH10 72.1 ± 2.1 3.6 ± 0.1 7.2 ± 0.4 49.0 ± 1.9 19.85 ± 0.66 1.47 ± 0.04
Average 77.4 12.2 23.1 47.2 9.0 1.6
Median 81.3 15.0 28.5 47.5 6.7 1.7
Deviation 5.9 5.9 10.7 1.4 6.6 0.1

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 31.1 ± 1.0 27.4 ± 0.9 40.4 ± 1.9 50.2 ± 1.8 1.14 ± 0.04 0.62 ± 0.03
VC 38.2 ± 1.5 15.9 ± 0.5 25.7 ± 1.2 54.9 ± 1.8 2.40 ± 0.15 0.70 ± 0.04
MX1 37.7 ± 1.4 20.2 ± 0.6 31.7 ± 1.5 53.5 ± 1.8 1.87 ± 0.11 0.71 ± 0.04
MX2 37.9 ± 1.5 20.0 ± 0.6 31.4 ± 1.5 53.6 ± 1.8 1.90 ± 0.12 0.71 ± 0.04
MX3 37.8 ± 1.5 19.5 ± 0.6 30.8 ± 1.5 53.8 ± 1.8 1.94 ± 0.12 0.70 ± 0.05
RH8 37.9 ± 1.9 14.6 ± 0.4 23.7 ± 1.1 55.3 ± 1.8 2.60 ± 0.19 0.69 ± 0.05
RH9 33.9 ± 2.5 4.9 ± 0.1 8.2 ± 0.4 57.0 ± 1.8 6.97 ± 0.68 0.60 ± 0.06
RH10 33.6 ± 2.6 4.7 ± 0.1 7.8 ± 0.4 57.0 ± 1.8 7.22 ± 0.71 0.59 ± 0.06
Average 36.0 15.9 25.0 54.4 3.3 0.7
Median 37.8 19.5 30.8 54.9 2.4 0.7
Deviation 2.7 7.8 11.6 2.2 2.4 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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