CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Ace Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20001150851
Observation time: 04/24/2000 115.36942 0851 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2000
Fractional day of year 115.369421
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 31918.0 ± 16.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 0.035
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -0.002
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -0.003
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0029
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0021
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 27.75, 31.61, 14.45
Event added to database
Sat Apr 30 21:46:05 2005
Event last processed
Wed Oct 15 15:59:23 2014
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
0.049 ± 1.605

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -470.0 ± 4.7 -516.9 ± 1.8
Vy GSE [km/s] -7.4 ± 3.5 16.6 ± 3.2
Vz GSE [km/s] 18.6 ± 5.6 -14.3 ± 11.8
Wi [km/s] 35.6 ± 1.4 46.9 ± 2.3
We [km/s] 1124.2 ± 45.4 1481.9 ± 74.1
Ni [n/cc] 5.2 ± 0.5 7.7 ± 0.5
Bx GSE [nT] 5.3 ± 0.6 8.5 ± 0.4
By GSE [nT] 9.3 ± 0.3 13.1 ± 0.0
Bz GSE [nT] -0.4 ± 0.6 3.2 ± 1.3
Plasma Beta
0.133 ± 0.137
0.149 ± 0.141
Sound Speed [km/s]
45.85 ± 1.81
60.35 ± 3.04
Alfven Speed [km/s]
98.38 ± 6.27
122.21 ± 5.93

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.948 ± 0.411 0.316 ± 1.233 -0.037 ± 0.037 -2.12 ± 46.42 161.59 ± 74.49
VC -0.768 ± 0.086 0.386 ± 0.065 -0.511 ± 0.461 -30.70 ± 10.37 153.34 ± 3.70
MX1 -0.383 ± 0.183 0.813 ± 0.102 -0.440 ± 0.409 -26.09 ± 8.13 115.22 ± 12.76
MX2 -0.462 ± 0.135 0.801 ± 0.086 -0.381 ± 0.361 -22.37 ± 6.55 119.99 ± 9.54
MX3 -0.581 ± 0.084 0.769 ± 0.065 -0.267 ± 0.261 -15.51 ± 4.50 127.09 ± 6.17
RH08 0.184 ± 0.039 0.540 ± 0.027 -0.821 ± 0.550 -55.21 ± 1.72 71.20 ± 4.07
RH09 0.009 ± 0.067 0.681 ± 0.046 -0.732 ± 0.560 -47.04 ± 3.58 89.25 ± 5.63
RH10 -0.738 ± 0.047 0.205 ± 0.070 0.642 ± 0.535 39.98 ± 3.97 164.46 ± 5.34
Average -0.461 0.564 -0.318 -19.883 125.266
Median -0.462 0.681 -0.381 -22.369 127.091
Deviation 0.390 0.238 0.460 29.435 33.798

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 78.8 ± 3.2 602.8 ± 13.6 1.44 ± 0.12
VC 88.5 ± 3.2 545.9 ± 17.1 1.44 ± 0.12
MX1 57.8 ± 3.2 326.0 ± 13.7 1.44 ± 0.12
MX2 61.3 ± 3.2 367.3 ± 14.0 1.44 ± 0.12
MX3 67.1 ± 3.2 427.6 ± 14.0 1.44 ± 0.12
RH08 53.7 ± 3.2 2.4 ± 10.3 1.44 ± 0.12
RH09 51.4 ± 3.1 111.7 ± 11.9 1.44 ± 0.12
RH10 77.7 ± 3.3 416.3 ± 27.3 1.44 ± 0.12
Average 67.1 350.0 1.44
Median 67.1 416.3 1.44
Deviation 13.4 204.0 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 160.1 ± 5.4 8.1 ± 0.2 19.1 ± 1.2 108.3 ± 5.2 19.86 ± 0.60 1.48 ± 0.11
VC 197.4 ± 5.6 1.1 ± 0.0 2.5 ± 0.2 108.6 ± 5.2 187.70 ± 4.34 1.82 ± 0.13
MX1 160.7 ± 5.1 22.6 ± 0.6 52.4 ± 3.3 106.2 ± 5.4 7.11 ± 0.15 1.52 ± 0.11
MX2 163.3 ± 5.2 20.3 ± 0.6 47.3 ± 3.0 106.7 ± 5.3 8.04 ± 0.18 1.54 ± 0.11
MX3 165.2 ± 5.3 16.3 ± 0.4 38.3 ± 2.4 107.4 ± 5.3 10.11 ± 0.24 1.54 ± 0.11
RH8 108.9 ± 4.9 25.2 ± 0.7 58.2 ± 3.7 105.6 ± 5.4 4.31 ± 0.16 1.03 ± 0.09
RH9 135.1 ± 4.9 26.7 ± 0.8 61.4 ± 3.9 105.3 ± 5.4 5.06 ± 0.13 1.29 ± 0.10
RH10 58.2 ± 5.3 8.8 ± 0.2 20.9 ± 1.3 108.2 ± 5.2 6.59 ± 0.61 0.54 ± 0.06
Average 143.6 16.1 37.5 107.0 31.1 1.3
Median 160.7 20.3 47.3 107.4 8.0 1.5
Deviation 42.9 9.3 21.2 1.3 63.5 0.4

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 106.9 ± 1.9 10.5 ± 0.3 23.7 ± 1.1 136.0 ± 4.2 10.18 ± 0.24 0.79 ± 0.03
VC 135.7 ± 6.6 1.4 ± 0.0 3.1 ± 0.2 136.4 ± 4.1 99.05 ± 2.33 1.00 ± 0.08
MX1 109.3 ± 4.9 29.5 ± 1.0 65.1 ± 3.2 133.1 ± 4.4 3.71 ± 0.07 0.82 ± 0.06
MX2 110.4 ± 4.4 26.5 ± 0.9 58.8 ± 2.8 133.8 ± 4.3 4.17 ± 0.08 0.83 ± 0.06
MX3 111.1 ± 3.5 21.3 ± 0.7 47.6 ± 2.3 134.7 ± 4.3 5.22 ± 0.10 0.83 ± 0.05
RH8 78.2 ± 8.6 32.9 ± 1.1 72.3 ± 3.5 132.3 ± 4.5 2.37 ± 0.18 0.59 ± 0.09
RH9 95.8 ± 7.7 34.9 ± 1.2 76.2 ± 3.7 131.8 ± 4.5 2.74 ± 0.13 0.73 ± 0.08
RH10 39.4 ± 6.9 11.5 ± 0.4 26.0 ± 1.3 135.9 ± 4.2 3.43 ± 0.68 0.29 ± 0.04
Average 98.3 21.1 46.6 134.3 16.4 0.7
Median 109.3 26.5 58.8 134.7 4.2 0.8
Deviation 28.7 12.1 26.4 1.7 33.5 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 Mon Apr 13 08:55:21 2009
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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