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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20192700528
Observation time: 09/27/2019 270.22790 0528 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2019
Fractional day of year 270.227899
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 19690.5 ± 40.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 234.598
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -95.938
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 8.073
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0009
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0276
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0166
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 9.86, 31.16, 53.15
Event added to database
Tue Dec 10 17:54:35 2019
Event last processed
Tue Dec 10 19:11:35 2019
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
36.368 ± 2.981

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -341.8 ± 0.8 -373.8 ± 2.0
Vy GSE [km/s] -10.0 ± 1.2 -39.9 ± 0.9
Vz GSE [km/s] -1.3 ± 0.5 8.3 ± 1.0
Wi [km/s] 14.9 ± 0.2 22.3 ± 0.6
We [km/s] 472.2 ± 7.3 703.9 ± 19.5
Ni [n/cc] 6.3 ± 0.2 16.1 ± 0.4
Bx GSE [nT] 0.7 ± 0.1 0.9 ± 0.1
By GSE [nT] -0.4 ± 0.1 -1.5 ± 0.3
Bz GSE [nT] -1.1 ± 0.1 -2.9 ± 0.1
Plasma Beta
1.457 ± 1.488
1.437 ± 1.388
Sound Speed [km/s]
19.28 ± 0.30
28.74 ± 0.80
Alfven Speed [km/s]
12.39 ± 0.37
18.61 ± 0.58

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.929 ± 0.105 -0.338 ± 0.281 0.152 ± 0.151 8.76 ± 10.02 199.97 ± 17.31
VC -0.714 ± 0.029 -0.667 ± 0.031 0.214 ± 0.211 12.38 ± 1.34 223.04 ± 2.49
MX1 -0.748 ± 0.036 -0.591 ± 0.042 0.302 ± 0.293 17.59 ± 4.69 218.33 ± 2.99
MX2 -0.736 ± 0.033 -0.602 ± 0.035 0.309 ± 0.299 18.01 ± 4.97 219.27 ± 2.41
MX3 -0.729 ± 0.032 -0.608 ± 0.033 0.313 ± 0.303 18.26 ± 5.14 219.82 ± 2.16
RH08 -0.772 ± 0.006 -0.573 ± 0.008 0.274 ± 0.267 15.89 ± 0.38 216.60 ± 0.58
RH09 0.114 ± 0.077 -0.833 ± 0.021 0.542 ± 0.481 32.81 ± 1.98 277.77 ± 5.29
RH10 -0.980 ± 0.014 0.129 ± 0.069 -0.151 ± 0.150 -8.68 ± 4.02 172.48 ± 4.04
Average -0.687 -0.510 0.245 14.379 218.411
Median -0.736 -0.591 0.302 17.590 219.269
Deviation 0.338 0.292 0.195 11.636 29.279

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 60.2 ± 6.1 388.4 ± 0.3 2.58 ± 0.09
VC 70.5 ± 4.8 324.4 ± 0.2 2.58 ± 0.09
MX1 63.6 ± 4.8 334.6 ± 0.2 2.58 ± 0.09
MX2 63.9 ± 4.8 330.8 ± 0.2 2.58 ± 0.09
MX3 64.0 ± 4.7 328.5 ± 0.2 2.58 ± 0.09
RH08 63.9 ± 5.0 342.6 ± 0.2 2.58 ± 0.09
RH09 83.3 ± 2.1 11.6 ± 0.4 2.58 ± 0.09
RH10 64.8 ± 6.5 375.9 ± 2.8 2.58 ± 0.09
Average 66.8 304.6 2.58
Median 64.0 334.6 2.58
Deviation 7.3 120.7 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 67.8 ± 0.9 5.3 ± 0.1 6.2 ± 0.2 22.3 ± 0.1 12.73 ± 0.34 3.04 ± 0.05
VC 74.0 ± 1.0 3.5 ± 0.1 4.1 ± 0.1 22.7 ± 0.1 21.05 ± 0.55 3.27 ± 0.06
MX1 73.5 ± 0.9 4.7 ± 0.1 5.5 ± 0.2 22.4 ± 0.1 15.55 ± 0.40 3.28 ± 0.05
MX2 73.5 ± 0.9 4.7 ± 0.1 5.5 ± 0.2 22.4 ± 0.1 15.69 ± 0.40 3.28 ± 0.05
MX3 73.6 ± 0.9 4.7 ± 0.1 5.4 ± 0.2 22.4 ± 0.1 15.78 ± 0.41 3.28 ± 0.05
RH8 73.4 ± 0.9 4.7 ± 0.1 5.4 ± 0.2 22.4 ± 0.1 15.68 ± 0.41 3.27 ± 0.05
RH9 42.8 ± 1.0 1.2 ± 0.0 1.4 ± 0.0 22.9 ± 0.1 35.35 ± 1.07 1.87 ± 0.05
RH10 42.0 ± 0.9 4.5 ± 0.1 5.3 ± 0.2 22.5 ± 0.1 9.28 ± 0.30 1.87 ± 0.04
Average 65.1 4.2 4.9 22.5 17.6 2.9
Median 73.5 4.7 5.4 22.4 15.7 3.3
Deviation 14.1 1.3 1.5 0.2 7.9 0.6

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 26.5 ± 1.7 8.0 ± 0.1 9.2 ± 0.3 33.3 ± 0.6 3.32 ± 0.20 0.80 ± 0.06
VC 29.2 ± 1.2 5.3 ± 0.1 6.2 ± 0.2 33.8 ± 0.6 5.54 ± 0.25 0.86 ± 0.05
MX1 29.0 ± 1.3 7.1 ± 0.1 8.3 ± 0.3 33.5 ± 0.6 4.09 ± 0.20 0.87 ± 0.05
MX2 29.0 ± 1.3 7.0 ± 0.1 8.2 ± 0.3 33.5 ± 0.6 4.13 ± 0.20 0.87 ± 0.05
MX3 29.0 ± 1.3 7.0 ± 0.1 8.2 ± 0.3 33.5 ± 0.6 4.16 ± 0.20 0.87 ± 0.05
RH8 28.9 ± 1.4 7.0 ± 0.1 8.2 ± 0.3 33.5 ± 0.6 4.12 ± 0.20 0.86 ± 0.05
RH9 16.4 ± 1.4 1.8 ± 0.0 2.2 ± 0.1 34.2 ± 0.5 9.03 ± 0.87 0.48 ± 0.04
RH10 15.9 ± 2.1 6.8 ± 0.1 7.9 ± 0.2 33.6 ± 0.6 2.35 ± 0.29 0.48 ± 0.07
Average 25.5 6.2 7.3 33.6 4.6 0.8
Median 29.0 7.0 8.2 33.5 4.1 0.9
Deviation 5.8 1.9 2.2 0.3 2.0 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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