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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20191590906
Observation time: 06/08/2019 159.37950 0906 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2019
Fractional day of year 159.379497
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 32788.5 ± 30.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 204.411
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 56.883
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -7.599
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0163
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0004
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0144
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 36.92, 83.41, 109.83
Event added to database
Tue Dec 10 17:29:09 2019
Event last processed
Tue Dec 10 19:03:15 2019
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
57.868 ± 3.514

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -270.7 ± 0.6 -294.5 ± 0.3
Vy GSE [km/s] 1.4 ± 1.1 12.3 ± 0.6
Vz GSE [km/s] -16.2 ± 0.5 -26.5 ± 0.2
Wi [km/s] 16.4 ± 0.2 20.5 ± 0.3
We [km/s] 518.5 ± 6.6 649.1 ± 8.4
Ni [n/cc] 17.0 ± 0.2 30.9 ± 0.4
Bx GSE [nT] -0.7 ± 0.2 -1.7 ± 0.2
By GSE [nT] 0.7 ± 0.2 -2.1 ± 1.0
Bz GSE [nT] 3.5 ± 0.1 5.2 ± 0.6
Plasma Beta
0.716 ± 0.702
0.775 ± 0.775
Sound Speed [km/s]
21.17 ± 0.27
26.50 ± 0.34
Alfven Speed [km/s]
19.40 ± 0.52
23.32 ± 0.47

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.843 ± 0.565 0.327 ± 1.127 0.427 ± 0.399 25.28 ± 52.03 158.80 ± 76.03
VC -0.847 ± 0.016 0.387 ± 0.031 -0.365 ± 0.348 -21.43 ± 1.15 155.43 ± 2.11
MX1 -0.807 ± 0.143 0.462 ± 0.122 0.367 ± 0.350 21.55 ± 23.66 150.23 ± 6.79
MX2 -0.952 ± 0.014 0.287 ± 0.036 -0.106 ± 0.106 -6.08 ± 4.95 163.24 ± 2.16
MX3 -0.948 ± 0.022 0.202 ± 0.034 -0.245 ± 0.240 -14.18 ± 4.88 167.96 ± 2.03
RH08 -0.911 ± 0.006 0.342 ± 0.013 -0.229 ± 0.225 -13.24 ± 0.71 159.44 ± 0.82
RH09 -0.724 ± 0.048 0.428 ± 0.064 0.542 ± 0.481 32.81 ± 3.87 149.42 ± 4.84
RH10 -0.897 ± 0.031 0.024 ± 0.069 0.441 ± 0.410 26.19 ± 4.03 178.50 ± 4.43
Average -0.866 0.307 0.104 6.363 160.375
Median -0.847 0.342 0.367 21.548 159.443
Deviation 0.077 0.141 0.373 22.086 9.599

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 50.1 ± 2.4 264.2 ± 0.3 1.82 ± 0.03
VC 83.9 ± 2.4 298.4 ± 0.3 1.82 ± 0.03
MX1 52.9 ± 2.4 258.5 ± 0.3 1.82 ± 0.03
MX2 81.7 ± 2.4 319.7 ± 0.3 1.82 ± 0.03
MX3 89.6 ± 2.4 321.8 ± 0.3 1.82 ± 0.03
RH08 88.4 ± 2.4 312.8 ± 0.3 1.82 ± 0.03
RH09 41.6 ± 2.4 223.9 ± 0.3 1.82 ± 0.03
RH10 52.6 ± 2.4 274.0 ± 1.0 1.82 ± 0.03
Average 67.6 284.2 1.82
Median 81.7 298.4 1.82
Deviation 20.0 34.8 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 42.5 ± 0.8 9.8 ± 0.1 12.5 ± 0.3 27.0 ± 0.2 4.35 ± 0.04 1.57 ± 0.02
VC 62.7 ± 0.9 1.5 ± 0.0 2.1 ± 0.1 28.7 ± 0.3 41.26 ± 0.33 2.19 ± 0.02
MX1 45.2 ± 0.9 9.1 ± 0.1 11.7 ± 0.3 27.2 ± 0.2 4.97 ± 0.05 1.66 ± 0.02
MX2 59.8 ± 0.9 2.1 ± 0.0 2.8 ± 0.1 28.6 ± 0.3 28.91 ± 0.19 2.09 ± 0.02
MX3 60.8 ± 0.8 0.1 ± 0.0 0.1 ± 0.0 28.7 ± 0.3 669.31 ± 4.49 2.12 ± 0.02
RH8 61.8 ± 0.9 0.4 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.0 28.7 ± 0.3 150.53 ± 1.09 2.15 ± 0.02
RH9 36.2 ± 0.9 11.7 ± 0.1 14.5 ± 0.4 26.2 ± 0.2 3.09 ± 0.04 1.38 ± 0.03
RH10 38.3 ± 0.6 9.2 ± 0.1 11.8 ± 0.3 27.2 ± 0.2 4.18 ± 0.03 1.41 ± 0.01
Average 50.9 5.5 7.0 27.8 113.3 1.8
Median 59.8 9.1 11.7 28.6 28.9 2.1
Deviation 11.4 4.9 6.1 1.0 230.1 0.4

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 23.3 ± 0.3 11.9 ± 0.2 15.0 ± 0.3 33.2 ± 0.5 1.95 ± 0.05 0.70 ± 0.02
VC 34.6 ± 0.2 1.9 ± 0.0 2.5 ± 0.1 35.2 ± 0.6 18.62 ± 0.41 0.98 ± 0.02
MX1 24.8 ± 0.4 11.1 ± 0.2 14.1 ± 0.3 33.5 ± 0.5 2.23 ± 0.06 0.74 ± 0.02
MX2 32.9 ± 0.3 2.5 ± 0.0 3.4 ± 0.1 35.2 ± 0.6 13.02 ± 0.31 0.94 ± 0.02
MX3 33.5 ± 0.2 0.1 ± 0.0 0.1 ± 0.0 35.3 ± 0.6 301.78 ± 7.26 0.95 ± 0.02
RH8 34.1 ± 0.2 0.5 ± 0.0 0.7 ± 0.0 35.3 ± 0.6 67.86 ± 1.56 0.97 ± 0.02
RH9 19.9 ± 0.4 14.3 ± 0.2 17.4 ± 0.4 32.3 ± 0.5 1.39 ± 0.04 0.62 ± 0.02
RH10 21.2 ± 0.3 11.2 ± 0.2 14.2 ± 0.3 33.5 ± 0.5 1.89 ± 0.06 0.63 ± 0.02
Average 28.1 6.7 8.4 34.2 51.1 0.8
Median 32.9 11.1 14.1 35.2 13.0 0.9
Deviation 6.3 6.0 7.4 1.2 103.7 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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