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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20181970433
Observation time: 07/16/2018 197.18970 0433 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2018
Fractional day of year 197.189705
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 16390.5 ± 20.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 224.766
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 103.220
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -4.603
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0179
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0163
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 11.78, 35.00, 41.08
Event added to database
Tue Dec 25 19:41:00 2018
Event last processed
Tue Dec 10 18:45:21 2019
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
64.627 ± 0.331

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -319.4 ± 0.5 -335.6 ± 2.2
Vy GSE [km/s] -14.6 ± 0.2 -22.8 ± 0.8
Vz GSE [km/s] -9.6 ± 0.7 -9.0 ± 1.9
Wi [km/s] 11.2 ± 0.1 12.4 ± 0.2
We [km/s] 353.2 ± 3.9 391.3 ± 5.8
Ni [n/cc] 12.1 ± 0.3 16.8 ± 0.3
Bx GSE [nT] 2.4 ± 0.0 2.6 ± 0.1
By GSE [nT] -3.1 ± 0.0 -5.4 ± 0.2
Bz GSE [nT] -1.5 ± 0.1 -1.3 ± 0.2
Plasma Beta
0.178 ± 0.176
0.142 ± 0.141
Sound Speed [km/s]
14.42 ± 0.16
15.97 ± 0.24
Alfven Speed [km/s]
26.50 ± 0.30
32.81 ± 0.17

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.760 ± 0.036 -0.027 ± 0.084 0.650 ± 0.538 40.52 ± 3.15 182.06 ± 6.34
VC -0.891 ± 0.020 -0.453 ± 0.039 0.022 ± 0.022 1.27 ± 5.43 206.97 ± 2.49
MX1 -0.983 ± 0.017 -0.090 ± 0.076 0.159 ± 0.158 9.15 ± 5.48 185.24 ± 4.43
MX2 -0.990 ± 0.012 -0.097 ± 0.073 0.098 ± 0.098 5.64 ± 5.27 185.58 ± 4.23
MX3 -0.994 ± 0.007 -0.107 ± 0.069 -0.007 ± 0.007 -0.40 ± 5.24 186.14 ± 3.96
RH08 -0.997 ± 0.001 -0.079 ± 0.013 -0.006 ± 0.006 -0.32 ± 1.11 184.51 ± 0.73
RH09 -0.714 ± 0.055 -0.044 ± 0.033 -0.698 ± 0.553 -44.29 ± 4.54 183.51 ± 2.60
RH10 -0.784 ± 0.046 -0.034 ± 0.055 -0.620 ± 0.525 -38.32 ± 4.29 182.51 ± 4.04
Average -0.889 -0.116 -0.050 -3.344 187.065
Median -0.891 -0.079 0.022 1.269 185.238
Deviation 0.120 0.139 0.433 26.994 8.171

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 49.6 ± 1.0 281.2 ± 1.6 1.40 ± 0.05
VC 79.5 ± 0.8 354.1 ± 1.3 1.40 ± 0.05
MX1 56.5 ± 0.8 372.2 ± 1.4 1.40 ± 0.05
MX2 58.0 ± 0.7 376.2 ± 1.4 1.40 ± 0.05
MX3 60.9 ± 0.7 379.1 ± 1.3 1.40 ± 0.05
RH08 59.4 ± 0.7 378.9 ± 1.3 1.40 ± 0.05
RH09 82.9 ± 0.7 275.5 ± 0.9 1.40 ± 0.05
RH10 78.6 ± 0.7 300.5 ± 4.3 1.40 ± 0.05
Average 65.7 339.7 1.40
Median 60.9 372.2 1.40
Deviation 12.6 45.9 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 44.4 ± 0.2 8.6 ± 0.1 17.2 ± 0.2 28.9 ± 0.3 5.18 ± 0.05 1.53 ± 0.01
VC 63.1 ± 0.4 2.3 ± 0.0 4.8 ± 0.1 30.1 ± 0.3 27.18 ± 0.28 2.10 ± 0.03
MX1 58.3 ± 0.4 7.2 ± 0.1 14.6 ± 0.2 29.3 ± 0.3 8.10 ± 0.09 1.99 ± 0.03
MX2 59.4 ± 0.4 6.9 ± 0.1 14.0 ± 0.2 29.4 ± 0.3 8.62 ± 0.10 2.02 ± 0.03
MX3 59.9 ± 0.5 6.3 ± 0.1 12.9 ± 0.1 29.5 ± 0.3 9.51 ± 0.12 2.03 ± 0.03
RH8 59.3 ± 0.5 6.6 ± 0.1 13.5 ± 0.2 29.4 ± 0.3 8.97 ± 0.11 2.01 ± 0.03
RH9 40.0 ± 0.8 1.6 ± 0.0 3.3 ± 0.0 30.1 ± 0.3 25.52 ± 0.58 1.33 ± 0.04
RH10 43.7 ± 0.8 2.5 ± 0.0 5.3 ± 0.1 30.1 ± 0.3 17.34 ± 0.36 1.45 ± 0.04
Average 53.5 5.2 10.7 29.6 13.8 1.8
Median 59.3 6.6 13.5 29.5 9.5 2.0
Deviation 9.1 2.7 5.3 0.4 8.5 0.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 31.5 ± 2.9 9.7 ± 0.1 21.3 ± 0.1 35.2 ± 0.2 3.26 ± 0.28 0.90 ± 0.08
VC 45.0 ± 2.3 2.6 ± 0.0 6.0 ± 0.0 36.4 ± 0.2 17.09 ± 0.79 1.24 ± 0.06
MX1 41.6 ± 2.5 8.1 ± 0.1 18.1 ± 0.1 35.6 ± 0.2 5.12 ± 0.28 1.17 ± 0.07
MX2 42.5 ± 2.4 7.8 ± 0.1 17.4 ± 0.1 35.6 ± 0.2 5.46 ± 0.28 1.19 ± 0.07
MX3 43.0 ± 2.2 7.1 ± 0.1 16.0 ± 0.1 35.8 ± 0.2 6.03 ± 0.28 1.20 ± 0.06
RH8 42.6 ± 2.2 7.5 ± 0.1 16.7 ± 0.1 35.7 ± 0.2 5.69 ± 0.26 1.19 ± 0.06
RH9 28.5 ± 0.5 1.8 ± 0.0 4.1 ± 0.0 36.4 ± 0.2 16.03 ± 0.11 0.78 ± 0.01
RH10 31.1 ± 0.7 2.9 ± 0.0 6.5 ± 0.0 36.4 ± 0.2 10.89 ± 0.15 0.86 ± 0.02
Average 38.2 5.9 13.2 35.9 8.7 1.1
Median 42.5 7.5 16.7 35.8 6.0 1.2
Deviation 6.6 3.0 6.6 0.5 5.3 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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