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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20180460754
Observation time: 02/15/2018 46.32946 0754 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2018
Fractional day of year 46.329462
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 28465.5 ± 50.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 251.253
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 56.951
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 5.358
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0004
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0134
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0006
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0192
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 18.51, 44.37, 69.37
Event added to database
Fri Apr 20 10:04:36 2018
Event last processed
Fri Apr 20 10:16:34 2018
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
55.211 ± 18.542

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -309.3 ± 0.1 -337.0 ± 1.3
Vy GSE [km/s] 3.9 ± 1.0 10.3 ± 1.8
Vz GSE [km/s] 3.1 ± 0.9 36.8 ± 0.8
Wi [km/s] 15.5 ± 0.3 20.7 ± 0.6
We [km/s] 489.2 ± 10.9 654.8 ± 19.2
Ni [n/cc] 11.0 ± 0.5 23.0 ± 0.9
Bx GSE [nT] -1.0 ± 0.0 -3.1 ± 0.4
By GSE [nT] 2.6 ± 0.0 5.3 ± 0.4
Bz GSE [nT] -2.3 ± 0.0 -4.6 ± 0.4
Plasma Beta
0.428 ± 0.446
0.355 ± 0.352
Sound Speed [km/s]
19.97 ± 0.44
26.73 ± 0.78
Alfven Speed [km/s]
23.65 ± 0.53
34.98 ± 2.01

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.852 ± 0.170 -0.222 ± 0.366 0.474 ± 0.435 28.30 ± 17.68 194.62 ± 24.48
VC -0.629 ± 0.018 0.146 ± 0.047 0.764 ± 0.561 49.80 ± 1.14 166.93 ± 4.23
MX1 -0.633 ± 0.029 0.155 ± 0.023 0.758 ± 0.561 49.32 ± 2.19 166.21 ± 2.01
MX2 -0.634 ± 0.030 0.153 ± 0.027 0.758 ± 0.561 49.26 ± 2.28 166.43 ± 2.33
MX3 -0.635 ± 0.031 0.151 ± 0.030 0.757 ± 0.561 49.21 ± 2.35 166.60 ± 2.59
RH08 -0.623 ± 0.012 0.162 ± 0.017 0.765 ± 0.561 49.94 ± 0.83 165.46 ± 1.51
RH09 0.043 ± 0.068 0.655 ± 0.040 0.754 ± 0.561 48.95 ± 3.02 86.24 ± 5.94
RH10 0.056 ± 0.069 0.667 ± 0.051 0.743 ± 0.561 47.99 ± 3.96 85.24 ± 5.94
Average -0.488 0.233 0.722 46.597 149.715
Median -0.629 0.155 0.758 49.259 166.431
Deviation 0.341 0.294 0.100 7.416 40.680

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 77.1 ± 0.8 338.1 ± 1.2 2.12 ± 0.18
VC 78.2 ± 0.5 283.0 ± 1.1 2.12 ± 0.18
MX1 78.9 ± 0.5 284.4 ± 1.1 2.12 ± 0.18
MX2 78.8 ± 0.5 284.8 ± 1.1 2.12 ± 0.18
MX3 78.8 ± 0.5 285.1 ± 1.1 2.12 ± 0.18
RH08 78.7 ± 0.4 281.4 ± 1.1 2.12 ± 0.18
RH09 88.9 ± 0.4 46.5 ± 0.6 2.12 ± 0.18
RH10 89.6 ± 0.4 41.2 ± 2.9 2.12 ± 0.18
Average 81.1 230.6 2.12
Median 78.8 284.4 2.12
Deviation 5.1 116.8 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 74.0 ± 0.7 3.4 ± 0.1 5.3 ± 0.1 30.8 ± 0.6 21.55 ± 0.44 2.41 ± 0.04
VC 85.6 ± 0.7 3.1 ± 0.1 4.8 ± 0.1 30.8 ± 0.6 27.29 ± 0.48 2.78 ± 0.04
MX1 85.6 ± 0.7 3.0 ± 0.1 4.6 ± 0.1 30.8 ± 0.6 28.92 ± 0.50 2.78 ± 0.04
MX2 85.6 ± 0.7 3.0 ± 0.1 4.6 ± 0.1 30.8 ± 0.6 28.80 ± 0.50 2.78 ± 0.04
MX3 85.6 ± 0.7 3.0 ± 0.1 4.6 ± 0.1 30.8 ± 0.6 28.71 ± 0.50 2.78 ± 0.04
RH8 85.7 ± 0.7 3.0 ± 0.1 4.6 ± 0.1 30.8 ± 0.6 28.53 ± 0.50 2.78 ± 0.04
RH9 54.9 ± 0.4 0.3 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0 31.0 ± 0.6 190.07 ± 2.33 1.77 ± 0.02
RH10 53.5 ± 0.4 0.1 ± 0.0 0.2 ± 0.0 31.0 ± 0.6 509.64 ± 6.14 1.73 ± 0.02
Average 76.3 2.4 3.6 30.8 107.9 2.5
Median 85.6 3.0 4.6 30.8 28.8 2.8
Deviation 14.2 1.3 2.1 0.1 172.0 0.5

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 35.9 ± 1.7 4.8 ± 0.1 7.8 ± 0.5 43.8 ± 1.3 7.52 ± 0.41 0.82 ± 0.06
VC 41.5 ± 1.0 4.4 ± 0.1 7.2 ± 0.4 43.8 ± 1.3 9.53 ± 0.30 0.95 ± 0.05
MX1 41.6 ± 1.0 4.1 ± 0.1 6.8 ± 0.4 43.9 ± 1.3 10.10 ± 0.32 0.95 ± 0.05
MX2 41.5 ± 1.0 4.1 ± 0.1 6.8 ± 0.4 43.9 ± 1.3 10.06 ± 0.32 0.95 ± 0.05
MX3 41.5 ± 1.0 4.1 ± 0.1 6.8 ± 0.4 43.9 ± 1.3 10.03 ± 0.32 0.95 ± 0.05
RH8 41.6 ± 1.0 4.2 ± 0.1 6.9 ± 0.4 43.9 ± 1.3 9.98 ± 0.31 0.95 ± 0.04
RH9 26.5 ± 1.2 0.4 ± 0.0 0.7 ± 0.0 44.1 ± 1.3 65.99 ± 2.85 0.60 ± 0.03
RH10 25.8 ± 1.2 0.1 ± 0.0 0.2 ± 0.0 44.1 ± 1.3 176.53 ± 8.01 0.59 ± 0.03
Average 37.0 3.3 5.4 43.9 37.5 0.8
Median 41.5 4.1 6.8 43.9 10.1 0.9
Deviation 7.0 1.9 3.1 0.1 59.6 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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