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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20192671218
Observation time: 09/24/2019 267.51283 1218 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2019
Fractional day of year 267.512830
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 44308.5 ± 40.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 237.886
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -92.627
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 8.234
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0263
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0225
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 7.82, 22.51, 24.14
Event added to database
Tue Dec 10 17:50:25 2019
Event last processed
Tue Dec 10 19:07:27 2019
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
55.729 ± 2.031

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -305.3 ± 4.0 -347.2 ± 4.6
Vy GSE [km/s] -14.2 ± 1.3 -27.7 ± 2.8
Vz GSE [km/s] 11.9 ± 2.0 19.3 ± 3.9
Wi [km/s] 29.8 ± 0.9 35.4 ± 0.6
We [km/s] 943.2 ± 29.5 1120.1 ± 18.1
Ni [n/cc] 8.3 ± 0.3 14.9 ± 0.8
Bx GSE [nT] -1.1 ± 0.7 -2.4 ± 0.3
By GSE [nT] 4.0 ± 0.1 7.7 ± 0.4
Bz GSE [nT] -1.7 ± 0.6 -2.3 ± 0.5
Plasma Beta
0.733 ± 0.743
0.555 ± 0.540
Sound Speed [km/s]
38.51 ± 1.20
45.73 ± 0.74
Alfven Speed [km/s]
34.95 ± 1.15
47.66 ± 2.03

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.716 ± 0.392 -0.158 ± 0.332 0.680 ± 0.548 42.86 ± 33.30 192.41 ± 25.69
VC -0.937 ± 0.024 -0.301 ± 0.052 0.174 ± 0.172 10.02 ± 5.89 197.82 ± 3.14
MX1 -0.939 ± 0.062 -0.292 ± 0.192 0.182 ± 0.180 10.51 ± 4.71 197.28 ± 11.74
MX2 -0.942 ± 0.061 -0.293 ± 0.191 0.167 ± 0.165 9.60 ± 4.83 197.27 ± 11.59
MX3 -0.944 ± 0.060 -0.293 ± 0.189 0.151 ± 0.150 8.68 ± 5.42 197.27 ± 11.44
RH08 -0.970 ± 0.003 -0.180 ± 0.014 0.162 ± 0.161 9.32 ± 0.73 190.53 ± 0.83
RH09 -0.554 ± 0.060 -0.005 ± 0.061 0.832 ± 0.545 56.35 ± 4.14 180.50 ± 6.27
RH10 -0.974 ± 0.016 -0.094 ± 0.071 0.207 ± 0.204 11.93 ± 3.97 185.52 ± 4.16
Average -0.872 -0.202 0.319 19.908 192.324
Median -0.939 -0.180 0.182 10.511 197.267
Deviation 0.153 0.112 0.273 18.704 6.470

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 77.0 ± 10.6 312.3 ± 1.0 1.81 ± 0.11
VC 83.9 ± 8.7 391.4 ± 1.8 1.81 ± 0.11
MX1 84.2 ± 8.7 391.8 ± 1.8 1.81 ± 0.11
MX2 84.6 ± 8.7 392.4 ± 1.8 1.81 ± 0.11
MX3 84.9 ± 8.6 393.0 ± 1.8 1.81 ± 0.11
RH08 89.2 ± 8.9 399.3 ± 1.8 1.81 ± 0.11
RH09 79.3 ± 10.4 246.1 ± 0.8 1.81 ± 0.11
RH10 85.7 ± 9.2 398.8 ± 12.8 1.81 ± 0.11
Average 83.6 365.6 1.81
Median 84.6 392.4 1.81
Deviation 3.8 56.3 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 83.4 ± 3.3 5.8 ± 0.1 7.9 ± 0.3 51.7 ± 0.6 14.26 ± 0.60 1.61 ± 0.07
VC 98.8 ± 3.9 2.7 ± 0.0 3.7 ± 0.1 52.0 ± 0.6 36.10 ± 1.54 1.90 ± 0.09
MX1 98.8 ± 3.9 2.6 ± 0.0 3.5 ± 0.1 52.0 ± 0.6 38.08 ± 1.62 1.90 ± 0.09
MX2 98.8 ± 3.9 2.4 ± 0.0 3.3 ± 0.1 52.0 ± 0.6 40.50 ± 1.73 1.90 ± 0.09
MX3 98.8 ± 3.9 2.3 ± 0.0 3.1 ± 0.1 52.0 ± 0.6 43.24 ± 1.85 1.90 ± 0.09
RH8 98.6 ± 4.0 0.4 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 52.0 ± 0.6 271.53 ± 11.73 1.90 ± 0.09
RH9 66.9 ± 2.9 4.8 ± 0.1 6.5 ± 0.2 51.8 ± 0.6 13.84 ± 0.63 1.29 ± 0.06
RH10 97.6 ± 4.0 1.9 ± 0.0 2.6 ± 0.1 52.0 ± 0.6 50.62 ± 2.20 1.88 ± 0.09
Average 92.7 2.9 3.9 51.9 63.5 1.8
Median 98.8 2.6 3.5 52.0 40.5 1.9
Deviation 11.7 1.7 2.3 0.1 85.1 0.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 46.2 ± 2.3 7.5 ± 0.2 10.7 ± 0.5 65.6 ± 1.5 6.20 ± 0.29 0.70 ± 0.03
VC 54.2 ± 4.4 3.5 ± 0.1 5.0 ± 0.2 66.0 ± 1.5 15.51 ± 1.00 0.82 ± 0.05
MX1 54.2 ± 4.3 3.3 ± 0.1 4.8 ± 0.2 66.0 ± 1.5 16.37 ± 1.04 0.82 ± 0.05
MX2 54.2 ± 4.4 3.1 ± 0.1 4.5 ± 0.2 66.0 ± 1.5 17.40 ± 1.12 0.82 ± 0.05
MX3 54.2 ± 4.4 2.9 ± 0.1 4.2 ± 0.2 66.0 ± 1.5 18.58 ± 1.22 0.82 ± 0.05
RH8 54.4 ± 4.3 0.5 ± 0.0 0.7 ± 0.0 66.1 ± 1.5 117.28 ± 7.38 0.82 ± 0.05
RH9 37.4 ± 2.2 6.2 ± 0.1 8.9 ± 0.4 65.8 ± 1.5 6.08 ± 0.40 0.57 ± 0.04
RH10 54.1 ± 4.1 2.5 ± 0.1 3.6 ± 0.2 66.0 ± 1.5 21.96 ± 1.30 0.82 ± 0.05
Average 51.1 3.7 5.3 65.9 27.4 0.8
Median 54.2 3.3 4.8 66.0 17.4 0.8
Deviation 6.2 2.2 3.1 0.1 36.7 0.1

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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