CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Ace Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20072041950
Observation time: 07/23/2007 204.82676 1950 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2007
Fractional day of year 204.826763
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 71432.3 ± 120.0
Shock type NN
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 224.915
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 8.220
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 20.854
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0011
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0746
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0011
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0718
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 5.13, 8.74, 9.78
Event added to database
Tue Oct 14 15:37:47 2014
Event last processed
Wed Oct 15 12:37:58 2014
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
76.883 ± 18.471

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -370.4 ± 6.4 -386.6 ± 0.6
Vy GSE [km/s] -1.3 ± 6.8 15.0 ± 0.9
Vz GSE [km/s] -39.5 ± 4.1 -15.1 ± 3.7
Wi [km/s] 26.0 ± 2.2 17.1 ± 0.8
We [km/s] 821.0 ± 68.7 540.9 ± 24.9
Ni [n/cc] 4.1 ± 0.3 7.0 ± 0.4
Bx GSE [nT] 1.5 ± 1.0 0.4 ± 0.1
By GSE [nT] -1.2 ± 0.8 0.1 ± 0.1
Bz GSE [nT] -2.1 ± 0.4 -0.8 ± 0.1
Plasma Beta
0.581 ± 0.596
4.598 ± 4.744
Sound Speed [km/s]
33.52 ± 2.80
22.08 ± 1.02
Alfven Speed [km/s]
34.25 ± 2.86
8.00 ± 0.36

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.968 ± 0.233 -0.250 ± 0.900 0.025 ± 0.025 1.45 ± 50.44 194.48 ± 53.27
VC -0.506 ± 0.198 0.509 ± 0.197 0.697 ± 0.553 44.17 ± 7.09 134.82 ± 21.18
MX1 -0.982 ± 0.138 -0.111 ± 0.901 -0.154 ± 0.152 -8.83 ± 35.38 186.43 ± 52.55
MX2 -0.960 ± 0.286 -0.240 ± 1.049 0.145 ± 0.144 8.33 ± 46.40 194.02 ± 62.60
MX3 -0.970 ± 0.199 -0.239 ± 0.797 -0.044 ± 0.044 -2.55 ± 42.04 193.85 ± 47.07
RH08 -0.244 ± 0.018 0.595 ± 0.009 -0.765 ± 0.561 -49.94 ± 0.51 112.31 ± 1.67
RH09 -0.286 ± 0.066 0.605 ± 0.055 -0.743 ± 0.561 -47.99 ± 3.96 115.32 ± 5.94
RH10 -0.328 ± 0.065 0.583 ± 0.056 -0.743 ± 0.561 -47.99 ± 3.96 119.33 ± 5.94
Average -0.655 0.182 -0.198 -12.917 156.321
Median -0.506 0.509 -0.044 -2.546 186.425
Deviation 0.345 0.422 0.522 33.535 38.988

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 66.2 ± 23.5 386.6 ± 1.0 1.74 ± 0.20
VC 22.2 ± 10.7 237.9 ± 1.0 1.74 ± 0.20
MX1 70.3 ± 21.6 395.1 ± 0.9 1.74 ± 0.20
MX2 60.5 ± 23.8 385.6 ± 1.0 1.74 ± 0.20
MX3 69.0 ± 23.1 386.7 ± 1.0 1.74 ± 0.20
RH08 81.0 ± 8.5 108.0 ± 0.8 1.74 ± 0.20
RH09 83.3 ± 8.5 125.9 ± 0.8 1.74 ± 0.20
RH10 83.9 ± 8.6 142.2 ± 8.2 1.74 ± 0.20
Average 67.1 271.0 1.74
Median 70.3 385.6 1.74
Deviation 20.0 131.2 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 28.7 ± 7.7 9.9 ± 0.7 13.8 ± 1.2 46.9 ± 3.4 2.88 ± 0.62 0.61 ± 0.13
VC 78.8 ± 2.7 26.6 ± 2.0 31.7 ± 2.7 39.9 ± 2.9 2.98 ± 0.26 1.98 ± 0.17
MX1 25.2 ± 7.2 8.2 ± 0.6 11.6 ± 1.0 47.3 ± 3.5 3.04 ± 0.71 0.53 ± 0.12
MX2 35.4 ± 7.5 12.2 ± 0.9 16.9 ± 1.4 46.4 ± 3.4 2.90 ± 0.45 0.76 ± 0.12
MX3 25.3 ± 7.8 8.7 ± 0.6 12.3 ± 1.0 47.2 ± 3.5 2.87 ± 0.72 0.53 ± 0.13
RH8 -12.0 ± 3.8 3.7 ± 0.3 5.3 ± 0.4 47.8 ± 3.5 -3.20 ± 0.99 -0.25 ± 0.08
RH9 -8.6 ± 3.7 2.8 ± 0.2 4.0 ± 0.3 47.9 ± 3.5 -3.07 ± 1.31 -0.18 ± 0.08
RH10 -7.8 ± 3.6 2.5 ± 0.2 3.6 ± 0.3 47.9 ± 3.5 -3.04 ± 1.43 -0.16 ± 0.08
Average 20.6 9.3 12.4 46.4 0.7 0.5
Median 25.3 8.7 12.3 47.3 2.9 0.5
Deviation 30.3 7.8 9.2 2.7 3.1 0.7

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 16.5 ± 0.7 3.1 ± 0.1 3.2 ± 0.1 23.3 ± 1.0 5.38 ± 0.30 0.71 ± 0.04
VC 45.3 ± 2.4 7.3 ± 0.3 7.4 ± 0.3 22.3 ± 1.0 6.19 ± 0.38 2.03 ± 0.14
MX1 14.8 ± 0.7 2.6 ± 0.1 2.7 ± 0.1 23.3 ± 1.0 5.80 ± 0.36 0.63 ± 0.03
MX2 20.2 ± 1.0 3.7 ± 0.2 3.9 ± 0.2 23.2 ± 1.0 5.41 ± 0.32 0.87 ± 0.06
MX3 14.6 ± 0.6 2.7 ± 0.1 2.9 ± 0.1 23.3 ± 1.0 5.38 ± 0.30 0.63 ± 0.03
RH8 -6.9 ± 3.2 1.2 ± 0.0 1.2 ± 0.1 23.5 ± 1.0 -5.92 ± 2.71 -0.30 ± 0.14
RH9 -5.0 ± 3.1 0.9 ± 0.0 0.9 ± 0.0 23.5 ± 1.0 -5.66 ± 3.53 -0.21 ± 0.14
RH10 -4.4 ± 3.1 0.8 ± 0.0 0.8 ± 0.0 23.5 ± 1.0 -5.53 ± 3.86 -0.19 ± 0.14
Average 11.9 2.8 2.9 23.2 1.4 0.5
Median 14.8 2.7 2.9 23.3 5.4 0.6
Deviation 17.4 2.1 2.1 0.4 5.9 0.8

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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