CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20212781329
Observation time: 10/05/2021 278.56245 1329 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2021
Fractional day of year 278.562448
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 48595.5 ± 30.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 204.790
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -83.387
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -5.170
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0261
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0236
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 14.88, 52.69, 60.84
Event added to database
Thu Jan 13 11:23:48 2022
Event last processed
Fri Jan 14 11:46:38 2022
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
158.467 ± 49.566

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -292.0 ± 1.1 -316.2 ± 0.8
Vy GSE [km/s] -11.6 ± 0.5 -17.1 ± 1.1
Vz GSE [km/s] 5.9 ± 0.9 -8.5 ± 1.5
Wi [km/s] 12.7 ± 0.7 16.0 ± 0.6
We [km/s] 402.6 ± 22.7 506.4 ± 20.4
Ni [n/cc] 4.4 ± 0.2 7.3 ± 0.2
Bx GSE [nT] -1.1 ± 0.1 -0.3 ± 0.1
By GSE [nT] 2.6 ± 0.0 4.6 ± 0.1
Bz GSE [nT] -0.9 ± 0.1 -2.3 ± 0.2
Plasma Beta
0.172 ± 0.167
0.146 ± 0.144
Sound Speed [km/s]
16.44 ± 0.93
20.67 ± 0.83
Alfven Speed [km/s]
30.88 ± 1.11
42.02 ± 0.84

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.875 ± 0.033 0.459 ± 0.061 0.150 ± 0.149 8.64 ± 4.27 152.32 ± 3.95
VC -0.845 ± 0.027 -0.190 ± 0.042 -0.501 ± 0.454 -30.05 ± 3.00 192.67 ± 2.79
MX1 -0.853 ± 0.025 -0.035 ± 0.057 -0.521 ± 0.467 -31.37 ± 2.69 182.32 ± 3.84
MX2 -0.832 ± 0.024 -0.064 ± 0.053 -0.550 ± 0.487 -33.39 ± 2.51 184.39 ± 3.61
MX3 -0.812 ± 0.026 -0.090 ± 0.049 -0.576 ± 0.502 -35.19 ± 2.50 186.35 ± 3.47
RH08 -0.404 ± 0.025 0.591 ± 0.025 0.698 ± 0.553 44.29 ± 2.00 124.35 ± 2.00
RH09 -0.123 ± 0.072 -0.485 ± 0.037 -0.866 ± 0.524 -59.99 ± 2.20 255.71 ± 8.41
RH10 -0.961 ± 0.019 0.196 ± 0.065 -0.196 ± 0.193 -11.28 ± 4.05 168.47 ± 3.86
Average -0.713 0.048 -0.295 -18.541 180.822
Median -0.832 -0.035 -0.501 -30.047 184.394
Deviation 0.291 0.351 0.501 32.188 37.700

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 47.8 ± 2.0 293.7 ± 0.4 1.65 ± 0.11
VC 73.3 ± 1.0 319.3 ± 1.0 1.65 ± 0.11
MX1 64.3 ± 1.0 318.7 ± 0.9 1.65 ± 0.11
MX2 65.8 ± 1.0 313.1 ± 0.9 1.65 ± 0.11
MX3 67.2 ± 1.0 307.4 ± 1.0 1.65 ± 0.11
RH08 63.2 ± 2.1 106.3 ± 0.4 1.65 ± 0.11
RH09 83.3 ± 1.6 82.8 ± 0.8 1.65 ± 0.11
RH10 54.8 ± 1.4 341.1 ± 5.2 1.65 ± 0.11
Average 65.0 260.3 1.65
Median 65.8 313.1 1.65
Deviation 10.8 103.4 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 42.5 ± 1.0 10.2 ± 0.4 20.7 ± 0.7 33.5 ± 0.8 4.19 ± 0.24 1.27 ± 0.03
VC 73.4 ± 0.7 4.2 ± 0.2 8.9 ± 0.3 34.8 ± 0.7 17.51 ± 0.68 2.11 ± 0.04
MX1 72.2 ± 0.7 6.4 ± 0.2 13.4 ± 0.5 34.4 ± 0.7 11.32 ± 0.45 2.10 ± 0.04
MX2 72.5 ± 0.7 6.0 ± 0.2 12.7 ± 0.5 34.5 ± 0.7 12.05 ± 0.47 2.10 ± 0.04
MX3 72.6 ± 0.7 5.7 ± 0.2 12.0 ± 0.4 34.5 ± 0.7 12.78 ± 0.49 2.10 ± 0.04
RH8 -8.8 ± 0.9 6.7 ± 0.3 13.9 ± 0.5 34.4 ± 0.7 -1.32 ± 0.10 -0.26 ± 0.03
RH9 46.2 ± 0.7 1.7 ± 0.1 3.6 ± 0.1 35.0 ± 0.7 27.11 ± 0.68 1.32 ± 0.03
RH10 64.0 ± 0.9 8.6 ± 0.3 17.8 ± 0.6 33.9 ± 0.7 7.44 ± 0.35 1.89 ± 0.04
Average 54.3 6.2 12.9 34.4 11.4 1.6
Median 72.2 6.4 13.4 34.5 12.0 2.1
Deviation 28.4 2.6 5.2 0.5 8.6 0.8

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 26.0 ± 0.9 13.0 ± 0.5 28.2 ± 0.6 45.0 ± 0.9 2.01 ± 0.08 0.58 ± 0.01
VC 44.7 ± 1.3 5.4 ± 0.2 12.1 ± 0.2 46.5 ± 0.9 8.34 ± 0.27 0.96 ± 0.02
MX1 43.9 ± 1.4 8.2 ± 0.3 18.2 ± 0.4 46.1 ± 0.9 5.38 ± 0.19 0.95 ± 0.02
MX2 44.1 ± 1.4 7.7 ± 0.3 17.2 ± 0.3 46.2 ± 0.9 5.72 ± 0.20 0.95 ± 0.02
MX3 44.1 ± 1.4 7.3 ± 0.2 16.3 ± 0.3 46.3 ± 0.9 6.07 ± 0.21 0.95 ± 0.02
RH8 -5.3 ± 0.6 8.5 ± 0.3 19.0 ± 0.4 46.1 ± 0.9 -0.63 ± 0.06 -0.12 ± 0.01
RH9 28.1 ± 1.1 2.2 ± 0.1 4.9 ± 0.1 46.8 ± 0.9 12.88 ± 0.46 0.60 ± 0.02
RH10 38.9 ± 1.2 11.0 ± 0.4 24.2 ± 0.5 45.5 ± 0.9 3.55 ± 0.13 0.86 ± 0.02
Average 33.1 7.9 17.5 46.1 5.4 0.7
Median 43.9 8.2 18.2 46.2 5.7 1.0
Deviation 17.2 3.3 7.1 0.6 4.1 0.4

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 Fri Jan 14 13:41:22 2022
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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