CfA Interplanetary Shock Database

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CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail

Database: Ace Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20010900220
Observation time: 03/31/2001 90.09762 0220 [UT]

Wind spacecraft

Site	Data tables	Selection	Normals	Parameters
Previous event Next event Yearly list Main page Help	General information Asymptotic parameters Shock front normals Key parameters Wave speed and Mach numbers	Survey Selected	Simple methods Rankine Individual equations	Shock speed Theta Bn Mach numbers

General Information (About, Top)

Year	2001
Fractional day of year	90.097616
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day]	8434.0 ± 60.0
Shock type	NN
Electron data availability	0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re]	0.035
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re]	-0.004
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re]	-0.002
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis	0013
Upstream field points selected for analysis	0053
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis	0012
Downstream field points selected for analysis	0059
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10	0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Event added to database	Sat Apr 30 21:50:16 2005
Event last processed
Method selected	RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]	-NaN ± -NaN

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter	Upstream	Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s]	-678.8 ± 13.3	-745.3 ± 33.5
Vy GSE [km/s]	85.5 ± 23.6	-10.1 ± 47.8
Vz GSE [km/s]	71.8 ± 20.6	-27.8 ± 53.4
Wi [km/s]	108.5 ± 3.8	105.1 ± 12.3
We [km/s]	3430.8 ± 120.9	3324.3 ± 388.3
Ni [n/cc]	8.4 ± 0.9	28.6 ± 9.1
Bx GSE [nT]	-0.2 ± 1.9	7.5 ± 12.0
By GSE [nT]	40.1 ± 2.7	16.4 ± 12.3
Bz GSE [nT]	-21.3 ± 4.4	11.6 ± 18.0
Plasma Beta	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000
Sound Speed [km/s]	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
Alfven Speed [km/s]	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00

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

Method	Nx	Ny	Nz	Theta [degrees]	Phi [degrees]
MC	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
VC	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
MX1	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
MX2	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
MX3	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
RH08	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
RH09	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
RH10	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.000 ± 0.000	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
Average	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Median	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Deviation	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method	ThetaBn	Shock Speed	Compression
MC	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00
VC	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00
MX1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00
MX2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00
MX3	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00
RH08	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00
RH09	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00
RH10	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00
Average	0.0	0.0	0.00
Median	0.0	0.0	0.00
Deviation	0.0	0.0	0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method	dV	Slow	Intermediate	Fast	Slow Mach	Fast Mach
MC	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
VC	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
MX1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
MX2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
MX3	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
RH8	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
RH9	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
RH10	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
Average	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Median	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Deviation	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method	dV	Slow	Intermediate	Fast	Slow Mach	Fast Mach
MC	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
VC	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
MX1	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
MX2	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
MX3	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
RH8	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
RH9	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
RH10	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
Average	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Median	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Deviation	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Survey interval (About, Top)

Survey of solar wind interval

Selected data (About, Top)

Key plasma parameters

Survey

Velocity

Magnetic Field

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)

Page updated Mon Apr 13 08:55:21 2009
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

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