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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20181260154
Observation time: 05/06/2018 126.07946 0154 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2018
Fractional day of year 126.079462
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 6865.5 ± 20.0
Shock type FR
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 206.938
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -85.104
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 1.446
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0006
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0187
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0260
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 7.92, 11.03, 11.82
Event added to database
Fri Jul 27 14:28:33 2018
Event last processed
Tue Dec 10 18:43:25 2019
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
37.832 ± 9.590

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -602.2 ± 4.8 -656.4 ± 10.4
Vy GSE [km/s] 55.2 ± 9.6 12.4 ± 8.2
Vz GSE [km/s] -0.3 ± 15.2 -26.1 ± 8.0
Wi [km/s] 70.2 ± 3.4 54.8 ± 1.3
We [km/s] 2218.6 ± 106.0 1734.3 ± 42.3
Ni [n/cc] 5.3 ± 0.6 2.9 ± 0.3
Bx GSE [nT] 6.5 ± 0.8 3.1 ± 0.9
By GSE [nT] -5.6 ± 1.2 -1.7 ± 0.7
Bz GSE [nT] -1.5 ± 2.3 -3.7 ± 0.8
Plasma Beta
0.672 ± 0.655
0.658 ± 0.684
Sound Speed [km/s]
90.57 ± 4.33
70.80 ± 1.73
Alfven Speed [km/s]
86.31 ± 4.95
67.88 ± 2.80

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.751 ± 0.459 0.179 ± 0.391 0.636 ± 0.532 39.50 ± 41.70 166.57 ± 28.72
VC -0.744 ± 0.098 -0.582 ± 0.117 -0.328 ± 0.315 -19.12 ± 9.78 218.06 ± 8.62
MX1 -0.912 ± 0.348 -0.368 ± 0.852 -0.181 ± 0.179 -10.44 ± 18.01 201.97 ± 53.50
MX2 -0.974 ± 0.140 -0.020 ± 0.855 0.226 ± 0.222 13.07 ± 35.18 181.15 ± 50.33
MX3 -0.678 ± 0.198 -0.706 ± 0.190 -0.204 ± 0.201 -11.78 ± 8.18 226.17 ± 15.96
RH08 -0.744 ± 0.016 -0.072 ± 0.028 0.665 ± 0.543 41.67 ± 1.35 185.52 ± 2.13
RH09 -0.832 ± 0.038 -0.036 ± 0.070 0.553 ± 0.488 33.58 ± 3.97 182.51 ± 4.84
RH10 -0.854 ± 0.036 -0.022 ± 0.071 0.520 ± 0.467 31.30 ± 4.01 181.50 ± 4.76
Average -0.811 -0.203 0.236 14.722 192.931
Median -0.751 -0.036 0.520 31.302 185.515
Deviation 0.100 0.312 0.416 25.225 20.515

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 40.0 ± 12.4 436.4 ± 2.6 0.55 ± 0.09
VC 82.8 ± 10.9 317.3 ± 8.7 0.55 ± 0.09
MX1 66.2 ± 9.8 440.0 ± 7.7 0.55 ± 0.09
MX2 43.4 ± 5.8 523.4 ± 4.1 0.55 ± 0.09
MX3 88.9 ± 9.7 266.6 ± 8.2 0.55 ± 0.09
RH08 52.8 ± 10.8 408.5 ± 2.4 0.55 ± 0.09
RH09 47.9 ± 9.3 453.8 ± 2.4 0.55 ± 0.09
RH10 46.4 ± 8.8 461.7 ± 15.8 0.55 ± 0.09
Average 58.6 413.5 0.55
Median 52.8 440.0 0.55
Deviation 18.7 82.9 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC -25.3 ± 8.1 52.6 ± 1.6 66.1 ± 3.8 113.6 ± 2.8 -0.48 ± 0.16 -0.22 ± 0.08
VC -98.6 ± 11.7 7.8 ± 0.2 10.8 ± 0.6 125.0 ± 3.1 -12.67 ± 1.39 -0.79 ± 0.08
MX1 -89.1 ± 8.8 25.7 ± 0.7 34.9 ± 2.0 122.6 ± 3.0 -3.46 ± 0.30 -0.73 ± 0.06
MX2 -62.0 ± 2.4 49.2 ± 1.4 62.7 ± 3.6 115.1 ± 2.8 -1.26 ± 0.03 -0.54 ± 0.02
MX3 -102.7 ± 10.7 1.1 ± 0.0 1.6 ± 0.1 125.2 ± 3.1 -89.78 ± 8.60 -0.82 ± 0.08
RH8 -35.1 ± 6.8 39.8 ± 1.1 52.2 ± 3.0 118.7 ± 2.9 -0.88 ± 0.18 -0.30 ± 0.06
RH9 -45.3 ± 5.1 44.8 ± 1.3 57.9 ± 3.3 116.9 ± 2.9 -1.01 ± 0.13 -0.39 ± 0.05
RH10 -51.3 ± 4.7 46.2 ± 1.3 59.5 ± 3.4 116.4 ± 2.8 -1.11 ± 0.11 -0.44 ± 0.05
Average -63.7 33.4 43.2 119.2 -13.8 -0.5
Median -51.3 44.8 57.9 118.7 -1.1 -0.4
Deviation 29.7 19.7 24.8 4.5 31.0 0.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC -41.9 ± 4.1 41.3 ± 0.5 52.0 ± 2.1 89.0 ± 1.0 -1.02 ± 0.11 -0.47 ± 0.05
VC -172.3 ± 11.3 6.1 ± 0.1 8.5 ± 0.3 97.9 ± 1.1 -28.23 ± 2.11 -1.76 ± 0.13
MX1 -158.9 ± 11.5 20.2 ± 0.2 27.4 ± 1.1 96.0 ± 1.1 -7.87 ± 0.64 -1.66 ± 0.13
MX2 -109.8 ± 8.9 38.7 ± 0.5 49.3 ± 2.0 90.2 ± 1.0 -2.84 ± 0.26 -1.22 ± 0.11
MX3 -174.9 ± 10.7 0.9 ± 0.0 1.2 ± 0.1 98.1 ± 1.1 -194.96 ± 13.94 -1.78 ± 0.13
RH8 -61.4 ± 5.5 31.2 ± 0.4 41.1 ± 1.7 93.0 ± 1.1 -1.97 ± 0.20 -0.66 ± 0.07
RH9 -77.7 ± 6.2 35.2 ± 0.4 45.5 ± 1.9 91.6 ± 1.0 -2.21 ± 0.20 -0.85 ± 0.08
RH10 -85.2 ± 6.4 36.3 ± 0.4 46.8 ± 1.9 91.2 ± 1.0 -2.35 ± 0.20 -0.93 ± 0.08
Average -110.3 26.2 34.0 93.4 -30.2 -1.2
Median -85.2 35.2 45.5 93.0 -2.3 -0.9
Deviation 52.3 15.5 19.5 3.5 67.2 0.5

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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