CfA Interplanetary Shock Database - Individual Event Detail
 

Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 19951072333
Observation time: 04/17/1995 107.98130 2333 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 1995
Fractional day of year 107.981302
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 84784.5 ± 9.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 229.808
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 59.480
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 10.962
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0009
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0235
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0009
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0228
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 6.35, 6.98, 7.09
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:00:33 2005
Event last processed
Wed Mar 25 12:54:00 2009
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
62.936 ± 0.735

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -331.8 ± 0.5 -356.1 ± 1.0
Vy GSE [km/s] 1.7 ± 0.5 4.6 ± 3.5
Vz GSE [km/s] -0.3 ± 0.6 14.5 ± 2.9
Wi [km/s] 18.0 ± 0.4 27.5 ± 3.0
We [km/s] 569.0 ± 12.1 869.1 ± 94.6
Ni [n/cc] 14.4 ± 0.2 25.3 ± 1.4
Bx GSE [nT] 1.2 ± 0.1 1.7 ± 0.3
By GSE [nT] 7.0 ± 0.2 4.2 ± 1.6
Bz GSE [nT] 3.2 ± 0.4 9.0 ± 0.6
Plasma Beta
0.162 ± 0.163
0.392 ± 0.363
Sound Speed [km/s]
23.23 ± 0.49
35.48 ± 3.86
Alfven Speed [km/s]
44.78 ± 0.42
44.12 ± 1.83

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.162 ± 0.031 -0.906 ± 0.065 -0.391 ± 0.370 -23.02 ± 9.63 259.84 ± 1.84
VC -0.854 ± 0.050 0.102 ± 0.117 0.511 ± 0.461 30.72 ± 5.47 173.21 ± 7.83
MX1 -0.971 ± 0.235 -0.214 ± 1.053 0.104 ± 0.104 5.99 ± 22.86 192.40 ± 62.13
MX2 -0.988 ± 0.040 -0.133 ± 0.288 0.073 ± 0.073 4.17 ± 8.71 187.69 ± 16.67
MX3 -0.949 ± 0.033 0.237 ± 0.094 0.205 ± 0.202 11.84 ± 6.82 165.96 ± 5.68
RH08 -1.000 ± 0.000 -0.026 ± 0.014 0.006 ± 0.006 0.32 ± 0.48 181.50 ± 0.82
RH09 -1.000 ± 0.001 -0.009 ± 0.061 0.017 ± 0.017 0.96 ± 2.19 180.50 ± 3.47
RH10 -1.000 ± 0.001 -0.009 ± 0.063 0.017 ± 0.017 0.96 ± 2.36 180.50 ± 3.62
Average -0.866 -0.120 0.068 3.993 190.201
Median -0.971 -0.009 0.073 4.166 181.504
Deviation 0.288 0.346 0.250 14.839 29.279

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 3.1 ± 1.5 43.4 ± 6.0 1.76 ± 0.10
VC 80.3 ± 1.4 348.8 ± 4.3 1.76 ± 0.10
MX1 72.6 ± 0.8 378.9 ± 4.0 1.76 ± 0.10
MX2 76.0 ± 0.7 385.8 ± 4.1 1.76 ± 0.10
MX3 81.3 ± 0.7 379.0 ± 5.1 1.76 ± 0.10
RH08 80.0 ± 0.7 389.2 ± 4.4 1.76 ± 0.10
RH09 81.2 ± 0.7 389.9 ± 4.4 1.76 ± 0.10
RH10 81.2 ± 0.7 389.9 ± 4.4 1.76 ± 0.10
Average 69.5 338.1 1.76
Median 80.3 385.8 1.76
Deviation 27.0 119.8 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC -9.0 ± 0.4 23.2 ± 0.5 44.7 ± 0.4 44.8 ± 0.4 -0.39 ± 0.02 -0.20 ± 0.01
VC 65.6 ± 0.2 3.5 ± 0.1 7.5 ± 0.1 50.3 ± 0.5 18.88 ± 0.30 1.30 ± 0.01
MX1 57.0 ± 0.4 6.2 ± 0.1 13.4 ± 0.1 50.1 ± 0.5 9.20 ± 0.14 1.14 ± 0.01
MX2 58.1 ± 0.4 5.0 ± 0.1 10.8 ± 0.1 50.2 ± 0.5 11.62 ± 0.19 1.16 ± 0.01
MX3 63.6 ± 0.4 3.1 ± 0.1 6.8 ± 0.1 50.4 ± 0.5 20.29 ± 0.35 1.26 ± 0.01
RH8 57.6 ± 0.5 3.6 ± 0.1 7.8 ± 0.1 50.3 ± 0.5 16.02 ± 0.27 1.14 ± 0.01
RH9 58.2 ± 0.4 3.2 ± 0.1 6.9 ± 0.1 50.4 ± 0.5 18.32 ± 0.31 1.16 ± 0.01
RH10 58.2 ± 0.4 3.2 ± 0.1 6.9 ± 0.1 50.4 ± 0.5 18.32 ± 0.31 1.16 ± 0.01
Average 51.2 6.4 13.1 49.6 14.0 1.0
Median 58.2 3.6 7.8 50.3 18.3 1.2
Deviation 24.5 6.9 13.0 1.9 7.0 0.5

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC -4.5 ± 2.4 35.3 ± 3.8 44.1 ± 1.8 44.3 ± 1.8 -0.13 ± 0.07 -0.10 ± 0.05
VC 37.0 ± 1.2 4.6 ± 0.3 7.4 ± 0.3 56.5 ± 3.2 7.99 ± 0.54 0.66 ± 0.03
MX1 32.5 ± 1.2 8.3 ± 0.6 13.2 ± 0.5 56.1 ± 3.1 3.93 ± 0.28 0.58 ± 0.03
MX2 33.4 ± 1.0 6.7 ± 0.5 10.7 ± 0.4 56.3 ± 3.1 5.01 ± 0.38 0.60 ± 0.03
MX3 36.8 ± 0.9 4.2 ± 0.3 6.7 ± 0.3 56.5 ± 3.2 8.82 ± 0.76 0.65 ± 0.04
RH8 33.3 ± 0.9 4.8 ± 0.4 7.7 ± 0.3 56.5 ± 3.2 6.95 ± 0.58 0.59 ± 0.04
RH9 33.7 ± 0.9 4.2 ± 0.3 6.8 ± 0.3 56.5 ± 3.2 7.96 ± 0.67 0.60 ± 0.04
RH10 33.7 ± 0.9 4.2 ± 0.3 6.8 ± 0.3 56.5 ± 3.2 7.96 ± 0.67 0.60 ± 0.04
Average 29.5 9.1 12.9 54.9 6.1 0.5
Median 33.7 4.8 7.7 56.5 8.0 0.6
Deviation 13.8 10.7 12.8 4.3 3.0 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 Jun 13 11:06:02 2014
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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