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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20220721005
Observation time: 03/13/2022 72.42064 1005 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2022
Fractional day of year 72.420642
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 36343.5 ± 220.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 216.642
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -101.595
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 1.385
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0260
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0266
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 9.63, 11.93, 14.15
Event added to database
Fri Aug 12 06:39:14 2022
Event last processed
Fri Aug 12 08:29:51 2022
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
106.153 ± 22.123

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -360.8 ± 6.7 -545.7 ± 21.9
Vy GSE [km/s] -4.0 ± 14.8 2.8 ± 16.1
Vz GSE [km/s] 1.7 ± 9.3 18.5 ± 29.6
Wi [km/s] 23.0 ± 5.0 60.1 ± 13.7
We [km/s] 726.1 ± 157.6 1900.4 ± 433.1
Ni [n/cc] 2.7 ± 0.7 8.3 ± 2.5
Bx GSE [nT] 1.7 ± 0.6 9.3 ± 2.1
By GSE [nT] -0.8 ± 0.8 3.9 ± 1.5
Bz GSE [nT] -0.5 ± 0.5 1.3 ± 2.8
Plasma Beta
1.010 ± 0.622
0.781 ± 0.526
Sound Speed [km/s]
29.64 ± 6.43
77.58 ± 17.68
Alfven Speed [km/s]
29.15 ± 9.51
83.40 ± 21.27

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.692 ± 0.341 0.673 ± 0.348 0.261 ± 0.255 15.12 ± 33.15 135.77 ± 27.49
VC -0.996 ± 0.013 0.044 ± 0.117 0.082 ± 0.081 4.69 ± 8.39 177.47 ± 6.73
MX1 -0.787 ± 0.453 0.482 ± 0.652 0.385 ± 0.365 22.64 ± 40.34 148.51 ± 46.37
MX2 -0.672 ± 0.278 0.720 ± 0.261 0.176 ± 0.174 10.11 ± 26.23 133.02 ± 21.69
MX3 -0.664 ± 0.270 0.712 ± 0.254 0.228 ± 0.224 13.20 ± 23.93 132.96 ± 21.05
RH08 -0.252 ± 0.012 0.809 ± 0.021 -0.531 ± 0.474 -32.05 ± 2.31 107.30 ± 0.74
RH09 -0.322 ± 0.061 0.870 ± 0.034 -0.374 ± 0.356 -21.98 ± 4.12 110.31 ± 3.96
RH10 -0.307 ± 0.067 0.875 ± 0.034 -0.374 ± 0.356 -21.98 ± 4.01 109.30 ± 4.34
Average -0.586 0.648 -0.019 -1.284 131.830
Median -0.664 0.720 0.176 10.109 133.019
Deviation 0.265 0.275 0.352 20.771 23.762

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 28.9 ± 21.7 467.2 ± 4.7 2.97 ± 1.02
VC 32.6 ± 14.2 649.6 ± 6.6 2.97 ± 1.02
MX1 26.0 ± 15.6 534.2 ± 5.7 2.97 ± 1.02
MX2 30.4 ± 23.8 448.6 ± 4.4 2.97 ± 1.02
MX3 29.8 ± 23.8 445.1 ± 4.4 2.97 ± 1.02
RH08 70.8 ± 20.5 158.3 ± 5.0 2.97 ± 1.02
RH09 63.1 ± 21.4 205.4 ± 4.4 2.97 ± 1.02
RH10 63.8 ± 21.5 195.8 ± 33.0 2.97 ± 1.02
Average 43.2 388.0 2.97
Median 32.6 448.6 2.97
Deviation 19.0 179.7 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 219.8 ± 12.3 18.7 ± 3.4 25.5 ± 8.3 38.3 ± 3.8 12.04 ± 2.03 5.77 ± 0.48
VC 290.3 ± 6.9 17.8 ± 3.2 24.5 ± 8.0 38.8 ± 3.9 16.80 ± 3.17 7.55 ± 0.73
MX1 251.5 ± 10.3 19.4 ± 3.6 26.2 ± 8.6 38.0 ± 3.8 13.33 ± 2.47 6.67 ± 0.60
MX2 208.9 ± 12.9 18.3 ± 3.3 25.1 ± 8.2 38.5 ± 3.9 11.66 ± 1.87 5.45 ± 0.43
MX3 208.2 ± 12.7 18.5 ± 3.3 25.3 ± 8.3 38.4 ± 3.8 11.54 ± 1.88 5.45 ± 0.44
RH8 71.6 ± 14.7 6.4 ± 1.0 9.6 ± 3.1 42.3 ± 4.1 11.23 ± 1.30 1.68 ± 0.25
RH9 93.5 ± 15.1 8.9 ± 1.4 13.2 ± 4.3 41.8 ± 4.1 10.61 ± 1.04 2.23 ± 0.24
RH10 89.4 ± 15.1 8.6 ± 1.4 12.9 ± 4.2 41.8 ± 4.1 10.39 ± 1.05 2.13 ± 0.25
Average 179.2 14.6 20.3 39.7 12.2 4.6
Median 208.9 18.3 25.1 38.8 11.7 5.5
Deviation 82.8 5.6 7.1 1.9 2.1 2.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 83.0 ± 10.3 53.2 ± 11.7 73.0 ± 18.6 102.9 ± 11.0 1.62 ± 0.36 0.81 ± 0.10
VC 104.6 ± 22.3 50.4 ± 10.9 70.2 ± 17.9 104.3 ± 11.3 2.12 ± 0.47 1.00 ± 0.20
MX1 96.2 ± 17.3 55.3 ± 12.3 75.0 ± 19.1 101.8 ± 10.7 1.80 ± 0.41 0.95 ± 0.14
MX2 76.8 ± 8.0 52.1 ± 11.4 71.9 ± 18.3 103.5 ± 11.1 1.53 ± 0.35 0.75 ± 0.09
MX3 76.8 ± 8.7 52.5 ± 11.5 72.4 ± 18.5 103.3 ± 11.1 1.52 ± 0.35 0.75 ± 0.09
RH8 28.4 ± 23.2 17.9 ± 3.5 27.4 ± 7.0 114.7 ± 13.9 1.76 ± 1.57 0.27 ± 0.24
RH9 34.3 ± 18.8 24.9 ± 4.9 37.8 ± 9.6 113.3 ± 13.6 1.50 ± 0.97 0.32 ± 0.20
RH10 33.0 ± 19.0 24.3 ± 4.8 36.9 ± 9.4 113.5 ± 13.6 1.48 ± 1.00 0.31 ± 0.20
Average 66.6 41.3 58.1 107.1 1.7 0.6
Median 76.8 52.1 71.9 104.3 1.6 0.7
Deviation 30.3 15.9 20.2 5.6 0.2 0.3

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 08:39:34 2022
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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