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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20182131257
Observation time: 08/01/2018 213.53984 1257 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2018
Fractional day of year 213.539844
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 46642.5 ± 30.0
Shock type SF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 243.127
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 87.465
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 0.345
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0260
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0004
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0147
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 2.94, 3.33, 3.74
Event added to database
Tue Dec 25 19:45:59 2018
Event last processed
Tue Dec 10 18:49:20 2019
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
78.536 ± 20.584

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -383.7 ± 1.9 -435.5 ± 4.7
Vy GSE [km/s] 27.6 ± 9.0 57.4 ± 5.1
Vz GSE [km/s] -4.7 ± 9.9 31.0 ± 3.9
Wi [km/s] 36.8 ± 1.2 52.0 ± 0.9
We [km/s] 1163.1 ± 38.4 1644.9 ± 29.4
Ni [n/cc] 4.9 ± 0.4 7.8 ± 0.1
Bx GSE [nT] -6.2 ± 0.2 2.6 ± 0.7
By GSE [nT] 4.1 ± 0.8 3.5 ± 1.2
Bz GSE [nT] 3.2 ± 1.1 -4.2 ± 0.6
Plasma Beta
0.209 ± 0.219
1.152 ± 1.186
Sound Speed [km/s]
47.48 ± 1.57
67.15 ± 1.20
Alfven Speed [km/s]
80.89 ± 5.47
48.54 ± 1.81

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.210 ± 0.053 0.920 ± 0.043 -0.331 ± 0.319 -19.36 ± 7.39 102.89 ± 3.27
VC -0.752 ± 0.085 0.422 ± 0.107 0.507 ± 0.458 30.48 ± 8.10 150.71 ± 7.72
MX1 -0.454 ± 0.267 0.717 ± 0.206 -0.529 ± 0.473 -31.93 ± 16.48 122.35 ± 20.35
MX2 -0.176 ± 0.066 0.940 ± 0.037 -0.292 ± 0.284 -16.99 ± 6.89 100.62 ± 4.03
MX3 -0.094 ± 0.142 0.977 ± 0.033 -0.191 ± 0.188 -10.99 ± 8.95 95.48 ± 8.30
RH08 -0.640 ± 0.021 -0.320 ± 0.034 -0.698 ± 0.553 -44.29 ± 1.20 206.57 ± 3.00
RH09 -0.632 ± 0.040 -0.359 ± 0.061 -0.687 ± 0.550 -43.40 ± 2.15 209.58 ± 5.38
RH10 -0.634 ± 0.042 -0.375 ± 0.060 -0.676 ± 0.547 -42.53 ± 2.39 210.58 ± 5.23
Average -0.449 0.365 -0.362 -22.377 149.849
Median -0.454 0.717 -0.331 -19.357 150.711
Deviation 0.254 0.619 0.403 25.020 51.846

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 60.0 ± 8.8 179.7 ± 3.6 1.61 ± 0.17
VC 9.2 ± 8.5 496.9 ± 6.5 1.61 ± 0.17
MX1 59.5 ± 9.2 266.2 ± 3.4 1.61 ± 0.17
MX2 60.1 ± 8.6 166.8 ± 3.6 1.61 ± 0.17
MX3 60.4 ± 7.9 136.4 ± 3.5 1.61 ± 0.17
RH08 86.7 ± 3.3 237.6 ± 1.7 1.61 ± 0.17
RH09 88.0 ± 3.1 229.6 ± 1.7 1.61 ± 0.17
RH10 88.1 ± 2.9 229.7 ± 9.1 1.61 ± 0.17
Average 64.0 242.9 1.61
Median 60.4 229.7 1.61
Deviation 26.0 111.2 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 72.0 ± 10.9 21.0 ± 0.7 40.5 ± 2.7 91.5 ± 5.0 3.44 ± 0.56 0.79 ± 0.12
VC 199.3 ± 3.9 46.6 ± 1.5 79.8 ± 5.4 81.4 ± 5.4 4.29 ± 0.19 2.46 ± 0.20
MX1 69.7 ± 10.7 21.3 ± 0.7 41.1 ± 2.8 91.4 ± 5.0 3.27 ± 0.54 0.76 ± 0.11
MX2 71.8 ± 10.7 20.9 ± 0.7 40.4 ± 2.7 91.5 ± 5.0 3.43 ± 0.56 0.79 ± 0.12
MX3 72.5 ± 10.3 20.7 ± 0.7 39.9 ± 2.7 91.5 ± 5.0 3.51 ± 0.55 0.79 ± 0.11
RH8 -2.4 ± 4.5 2.3 ± 0.1 4.6 ± 0.3 93.8 ± 5.0 -1.07 ± 1.97 -0.03 ± 0.05
RH9 -6.1 ± 4.3 1.4 ± 0.0 2.9 ± 0.2 93.8 ± 5.0 -4.28 ± 3.03 -0.07 ± 0.05
RH10 -6.5 ± 4.1 1.4 ± 0.0 2.7 ± 0.2 93.8 ± 5.0 -4.80 ± 3.10 -0.07 ± 0.05
Average 58.8 17.0 31.5 91.1 1.0 0.7
Median 71.8 20.9 40.4 91.5 3.4 0.8
Deviation 68.3 15.3 26.8 4.1 3.8 0.8

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 45.6 ± 5.1 20.3 ± 0.6 24.3 ± 0.9 80.3 ± 1.6 2.25 ± 0.28 0.57 ± 0.07
VC 129.7 ± 6.7 47.3 ± 1.7 47.9 ± 1.8 68.1 ± 1.2 2.75 ± 0.16 1.91 ± 0.09
MX1 43.7 ± 4.9 20.6 ± 0.6 24.6 ± 0.9 80.3 ± 1.6 2.12 ± 0.27 0.55 ± 0.06
MX2 45.1 ± 5.2 20.2 ± 0.6 24.2 ± 0.9 80.4 ± 1.6 2.23 ± 0.28 0.56 ± 0.07
MX3 45.4 ± 5.1 20.0 ± 0.6 23.9 ± 0.9 80.4 ± 1.6 2.27 ± 0.28 0.56 ± 0.06
RH8 -1.2 ± 2.2 2.2 ± 0.1 2.8 ± 0.1 82.8 ± 1.7 -0.50 ± 1.01 -0.01 ± 0.03
RH9 -3.7 ± 2.2 1.4 ± 0.0 1.7 ± 0.1 82.9 ± 1.7 -2.61 ± 1.58 -0.04 ± 0.03
RH10 -4.1 ± 2.2 1.3 ± 0.0 1.6 ± 0.1 82.9 ± 1.7 -3.08 ± 1.65 -0.05 ± 0.03
Average 37.6 16.7 18.9 79.7 0.7 0.5
Median 45.1 20.2 24.2 80.4 2.2 0.6
Deviation 44.1 15.4 16.1 4.9 2.4 0.6

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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