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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20181250953
Observation time: 05/05/2018 125.41217 0953 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2018
Fractional day of year 125.412170
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 35611.5 ± 20.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 207.248
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -86.380
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 1.705
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0084
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0003
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0111
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 56.21, Infinity, -1121.30
Event added to database
Fri Jul 27 14:27:09 2018
Event last processed
Tue Dec 10 18:41:22 2019
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
62.784 ± 34.497

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -335.0 ± 1.0 -368.0 ± 1.4
Vy GSE [km/s] -0.3 ± 0.6 -28.9 ± 2.8
Vz GSE [km/s] -2.3 ± 1.0 -4.1 ± 1.3
Wi [km/s] 20.6 ± 0.1 27.6 ± 1.2
We [km/s] 650.8 ± 2.7 874.0 ± 39.4
Ni [n/cc] 9.8 ± 0.6 23.2 ± 2.2
Bx GSE [nT] -5.0 ± 0.2 -4.7 ± 1.3
By GSE [nT] 2.8 ± 0.2 6.0 ± 0.7
Bz GSE [nT] -0.3 ± 0.6 -0.4 ± 1.1
Plasma Beta
0.265 ± 0.265
0.694 ± 0.811
Sound Speed [km/s]
26.57 ± 0.11
35.68 ± 1.61
Alfven Speed [km/s]
39.99 ± 0.13
34.97 ± 7.77

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.982 ± 0.061 0.184 ± 0.321 0.045 ± 0.045 2.59 ± 11.33 169.39 ± 18.73
VC -0.755 ± 0.039 -0.655 ± 0.045 -0.041 ± 0.041 -2.32 ± 1.85 220.93 ± 3.41
MX1 -0.988 ± 0.055 0.148 ± 0.368 -0.047 ± 0.047 -2.67 ± 4.13 171.47 ± 21.35
MX2 -0.993 ± 0.042 0.118 ± 0.356 -0.031 ± 0.031 -1.75 ± 4.42 173.21 ± 20.56
MX3 -0.997 ± 0.029 0.020 ± 0.310 0.077 ± 0.076 4.39 ± 20.80 178.83 ± 17.81
RH08 -0.208 ± 0.061 0.031 ± 0.073 0.978 ± 0.286 77.86 ± 3.57 171.48 ± 20.06
RH09 -0.032 ± 0.009 0.146 ± 0.034 -0.989 ± 0.212 -81.43 ± 2.00 102.28 ± 2.00
RH10 0.030 ± 0.071 -0.967 ± 0.018 0.251 ± 0.246 14.56 ± 3.99 271.75 ± 4.20
Average -0.616 -0.122 0.031 1.404 182.417
Median -0.755 0.118 0.045 2.591 173.211
Deviation 0.463 0.437 0.535 42.980 48.392

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 19.9 ± 3.3 376.2 ± 0.5 2.37 ± 0.14
VC 70.2 ± 2.4 327.7 ± 2.2 2.37 ± 0.14
MX1 21.3 ± 2.8 380.5 ± 0.5 2.37 ± 0.14
MX2 23.0 ± 2.8 383.7 ± 0.6 2.37 ± 0.14
MX3 29.3 ± 3.2 389.6 ± 0.7 2.37 ± 0.14
RH08 81.2 ± 6.4 75.0 ± 0.7 2.37 ± 0.14
RH09 81.8 ± 6.5 9.8 ± 0.8 2.37 ± 0.14
RH10 59.5 ± 3.3 33.0 ± 7.1 2.37 ± 0.14
Average 48.3 246.9 2.37
Median 59.5 376.2 2.37
Deviation 27.6 173.9 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 47.4 ± 1.0 24.0 ± 0.1 37.6 ± 0.1 41.6 ± 0.1 1.97 ± 0.05 1.14 ± 0.02
VC 74.5 ± 0.7 7.6 ± 0.0 13.6 ± 0.0 47.4 ± 0.1 9.81 ± 0.11 1.57 ± 0.02
MX1 49.5 ± 1.1 23.7 ± 0.1 37.3 ± 0.1 41.7 ± 0.1 2.09 ± 0.05 1.19 ± 0.02
MX2 51.2 ± 1.1 23.3 ± 0.1 36.8 ± 0.1 42.0 ± 0.1 2.20 ± 0.05 1.22 ± 0.02
MX3 55.9 ± 1.0 21.6 ± 0.1 34.9 ± 0.1 42.9 ± 0.1 2.58 ± 0.05 1.30 ± 0.02
RH8 7.6 ± 0.8 3.4 ± 0.0 6.1 ± 0.0 47.9 ± 0.1 2.25 ± 0.23 0.16 ± 0.02
RH9 -3.1 ± 1.0 3.2 ± 0.0 5.7 ± 0.0 47.9 ± 0.1 -0.97 ± 0.31 -0.06 ± 0.02
RH10 43.2 ± 0.7 11.6 ± 0.0 20.3 ± 0.1 46.6 ± 0.1 3.73 ± 0.05 0.93 ± 0.02
Average 40.8 14.8 24.0 44.7 3.0 0.9
Median 49.5 21.6 34.9 46.6 2.3 1.2
Deviation 25.7 9.3 14.2 2.9 3.1 0.6

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 20.3 ± 1.8 27.7 ± 2.2 32.9 ± 7.3 41.9 ± 4.2 0.74 ± 0.05 0.49 ± 0.03
VC 30.8 ± 1.2 8.4 ± 0.7 11.9 ± 2.6 49.5 ± 4.6 3.67 ± 0.45 0.63 ± 0.08
MX1 21.1 ± 1.7 27.3 ± 2.2 32.6 ± 7.2 42.2 ± 4.2 0.77 ± 0.05 0.50 ± 0.03
MX2 21.7 ± 1.6 26.7 ± 2.2 32.2 ± 7.2 42.5 ± 4.2 0.82 ± 0.05 0.51 ± 0.03
MX3 23.7 ± 1.4 24.6 ± 2.0 30.5 ± 6.8 43.8 ± 4.2 0.97 ± 0.07 0.54 ± 0.04
RH8 3.4 ± 1.3 3.8 ± 0.3 5.3 ± 1.2 50.1 ± 4.7 0.91 ± 0.40 0.07 ± 0.03
RH9 -1.7 ± 1.4 3.5 ± 0.3 5.0 ± 1.1 50.1 ± 4.7 -0.50 ± 0.46 -0.04 ± 0.03
RH10 16.9 ± 2.9 12.9 ± 1.1 17.7 ± 3.9 48.6 ± 4.6 1.33 ± 0.33 0.35 ± 0.09
Average 17.0 16.9 21.0 46.1 1.1 0.4
Median 21.1 24.6 30.5 48.6 0.9 0.5
Deviation 10.8 10.8 12.5 3.8 1.2 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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