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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20220322127
Observation time: 02/01/2022 32.89429 2127 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2022
Fractional day of year 32.894288
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 77266.5 ± 50.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 257.423
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -24.839
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 12.832
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0013
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0448
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0011
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0358
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 5.61, 7.18, 7.36
Event added to database
Fri Aug 12 05:51:47 2022
Event last processed
Fri Aug 12 08:23:22 2022
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
54.290 ± 1.457

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -344.3 ± 3.2 -466.8 ± 3.7
Vy GSE [km/s] -6.5 ± 3.4 -23.9 ± 8.0
Vz GSE [km/s] 10.1 ± 8.6 -30.3 ± 18.5
Wi [km/s] 26.6 ± 1.7 58.0 ± 3.2
We [km/s] 839.6 ± 54.1 1833.5 ± 102.0
Ni [n/cc] 3.0 ± 0.2 7.2 ± 0.7
Bx GSE [nT] -4.1 ± 0.2 -1.2 ± 0.4
By GSE [nT] 3.6 ± 0.2 11.5 ± 0.3
Bz GSE [nT] -0.7 ± 0.6 3.4 ± 2.6
Plasma Beta
0.142 ± 0.140
0.339 ± 0.345
Sound Speed [km/s]
34.28 ± 2.21
74.85 ± 4.16
Alfven Speed [km/s]
71.03 ± 2.57
100.60 ± 6.96

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.856 ± 0.049 0.463 ± 0.080 -0.230 ± 0.225 -13.27 ± 7.03 151.61 ± 5.25
VC -0.943 ± 0.044 -0.134 ± 0.066 -0.304 ± 0.294 -17.68 ± 8.15 188.10 ± 3.96
MX1 -0.873 ± 0.040 0.446 ± 0.071 -0.196 ± 0.194 -11.33 ± 5.65 152.93 ± 4.64
MX2 -0.904 ± 0.018 0.407 ± 0.039 -0.129 ± 0.128 -7.40 ± 3.12 155.77 ± 2.44
MX3 -0.917 ± 0.014 0.388 ± 0.032 -0.096 ± 0.096 -5.53 ± 2.64 157.04 ± 1.99
RH08 -0.921 ± 0.001 0.364 ± 0.001 0.140 ± 0.139 8.03 ± 0.65 158.44 ± 0.00
RH09 -0.910 ± 0.025 0.360 ± 0.056 0.207 ± 0.204 11.93 ± 3.87 158.44 ± 3.49
RH10 -0.914 ± 0.025 0.361 ± 0.057 0.184 ± 0.182 10.62 ± 3.94 158.44 ± 3.55
Average -0.905 0.332 -0.053 -3.078 160.096
Median -0.910 0.388 -0.096 -5.528 158.440
Deviation 0.028 0.192 0.201 11.626 11.611

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 15.1 ± 4.0 467.6 ± 1.9 2.47 ± 0.43
VC 49.5 ± 3.2 543.3 ± 1.9 2.47 ± 0.43
MX1 15.8 ± 3.7 475.3 ± 1.8 2.47 ± 0.43
MX2 18.1 ± 3.3 490.8 ± 1.7 2.47 ± 0.43
MX3 19.5 ± 3.3 496.1 ± 1.6 2.47 ± 0.43
RH08 25.8 ± 4.8 487.4 ± 1.2 2.47 ± 0.43
RH09 28.2 ± 5.2 477.3 ± 1.2 2.47 ± 0.43
RH10 27.4 ± 5.1 480.9 ± 14.2 2.47 ± 0.43
Average 24.9 489.8 2.47
Median 25.8 487.4 2.47
Deviation 11.2 23.4 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 178.1 ± 1.9 32.7 ± 2.0 68.6 ± 2.5 71.8 ± 2.5 5.46 ± 0.34 2.48 ± 0.10
VC 220.7 ± 3.4 20.8 ± 1.1 46.2 ± 1.7 76.1 ± 1.9 10.66 ± 0.67 2.90 ± 0.08
MX1 179.6 ± 2.0 32.6 ± 2.0 68.4 ± 2.5 71.8 ± 2.4 5.53 ± 0.34 2.50 ± 0.10
MX2 183.4 ± 2.3 32.1 ± 2.0 67.5 ± 2.4 72.0 ± 2.4 5.73 ± 0.34 2.55 ± 0.10
MX3 184.1 ± 2.4 31.8 ± 2.0 67.0 ± 2.4 72.2 ± 2.4 5.81 ± 0.34 2.55 ± 0.10
RH8 171.3 ± 3.8 30.0 ± 1.8 64.0 ± 2.3 72.9 ± 2.3 5.72 ± 0.28 2.35 ± 0.10
RH9 164.3 ± 4.3 29.3 ± 1.7 62.6 ± 2.3 73.3 ± 2.2 5.62 ± 0.26 2.24 ± 0.10
RH10 166.6 ± 4.1 29.5 ± 1.8 63.1 ± 2.3 73.1 ± 2.3 5.65 ± 0.26 2.28 ± 0.10
Average 181.0 29.9 63.4 72.9 6.3 2.5
Median 179.6 31.8 67.0 72.9 5.7 2.5
Deviation 17.7 3.9 7.4 1.4 1.8 0.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 72.0 ± 9.7 69.5 ± 3.2 97.1 ± 6.7 104.4 ± 6.1 1.04 ± 0.17 0.69 ± 0.12
VC 90.5 ± 7.5 41.2 ± 1.4 65.4 ± 4.5 118.6 ± 5.1 2.20 ± 0.25 0.77 ± 0.09
MX1 72.4 ± 9.1 69.1 ± 3.2 96.8 ± 6.7 104.7 ± 6.1 1.05 ± 0.17 0.70 ± 0.11
MX2 74.5 ± 7.7 67.6 ± 3.0 95.6 ± 6.6 105.7 ± 5.9 1.11 ± 0.15 0.71 ± 0.10
MX3 74.6 ± 7.1 66.7 ± 2.9 94.9 ± 6.6 106.3 ± 5.8 1.12 ± 0.14 0.71 ± 0.09
RH8 70.5 ± 3.5 62.1 ± 2.5 90.6 ± 6.3 109.1 ± 5.6 1.14 ± 0.10 0.65 ± 0.05
RH9 67.4 ± 2.9 60.1 ± 2.4 88.6 ± 6.1 110.2 ± 5.5 1.12 ± 0.09 0.61 ± 0.04
RH10 68.4 ± 3.0 60.8 ± 2.4 89.3 ± 6.2 109.8 ± 5.5 1.13 ± 0.09 0.62 ± 0.04
Average 73.8 62.2 89.8 108.6 1.2 0.7
Median 72.4 66.7 94.9 109.1 1.1 0.7
Deviation 7.2 9.3 10.4 4.6 0.4 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 Fri Aug 12 08:39:43 2022
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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