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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20021412114
Observation time: 05/21/2002 141.88491 2114 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2002
Fractional day of year 141.884913
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 76456.5 ± 6.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 14.892
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 320.032
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 22.620
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0006
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0196
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0217
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 7.34, 8.91, 10.15
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:19:30 2005
Event last processed
Mon Mar 30 23:09:48 2009
Method selected
RH09
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
60.881 ± 17.991

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -368.8 ± 1.0 -401.6 ± 5.5
Vy GSE [km/s] 12.5 ± 1.6 -7.7 ± 2.8
Vz GSE [km/s] -25.2 ± 0.9 -19.2 ± 2.5
Wi [km/s] 21.8 ± 0.5 26.1 ± 1.1
We [km/s] 689.9 ± 15.1 824.1 ± 36.0
Ni [n/cc] 8.5 ± 0.4 18.4 ± 1.3
Bx GSE [nT] -2.5 ± 0.2 -0.4 ± 1.4
By GSE [nT] 1.4 ± 0.3 3.7 ± 0.7
Bz GSE [nT] 3.2 ± 0.3 7.0 ± 0.8
Plasma Beta
0.458 ± 0.456
0.401 ± 0.410
Sound Speed [km/s]
28.16 ± 0.62
33.64 ± 1.47
Alfven Speed [km/s]
32.35 ± 1.37
41.22 ± 0.89

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.884 ± 0.065 0.048 ± 0.232 0.464 ± 0.428 27.65 ± 7.94 176.92 ± 15.01
VC -0.836 ± 0.069 -0.526 ± 0.109 0.158 ± 0.157 9.09 ± 4.26 212.16 ± 7.45
MX1 -0.830 ± 0.055 -0.122 ± 0.184 0.544 ± 0.483 32.97 ± 5.12 188.36 ± 12.66
MX2 -0.778 ± 0.063 -0.250 ± 0.098 0.577 ± 0.502 35.25 ± 5.75 197.81 ± 7.10
MX3 -0.733 ± 0.066 -0.337 ± 0.089 0.591 ± 0.510 36.23 ± 5.67 204.69 ± 6.72
RH08 -0.561 ± 0.023 -0.535 ± 0.024 0.631 ± 0.530 39.14 ± 0.62 223.62 ± 2.40
RH09 -0.589 ± 0.054 -0.505 ± 0.060 0.631 ± 0.530 39.14 ± 2.82 220.61 ± 5.54
RH10 -0.630 ± 0.053 -0.468 ± 0.063 0.620 ± 0.525 38.32 ± 3.62 216.60 ± 5.28
Average -0.730 -0.337 0.527 32.226 205.097
Median -0.733 -0.337 0.591 36.231 212.159
Deviation 0.123 0.214 0.159 10.107 16.446

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 29.6 ± 4.0 369.6 ± 7.1 2.15 ± 0.15
VC 64.7 ± 3.4 369.6 ± 4.9 2.15 ± 0.15
MX1 32.5 ± 3.5 350.2 ± 6.1 2.15 ± 0.15
MX2 37.1 ± 3.3 331.0 ± 5.4 2.15 ± 0.15
MX3 41.0 ± 3.4 314.6 ± 5.0 2.15 ± 0.15
RH08 51.4 ± 3.7 246.0 ± 4.5 2.15 ± 0.15
RH09 49.5 ± 3.6 257.3 ± 4.5 2.15 ± 0.15
RH10 47.5 ± 3.5 273.9 ± 4.6 2.15 ± 0.15
Average 44.2 314.0 2.15
Median 47.5 331.0 2.15
Deviation 11.5 49.6 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 54.5 ± 0.9 21.2 ± 0.4 28.1 ± 1.2 37.3 ± 0.9 2.57 ± 0.06 1.46 ± 0.05
VC 71.9 ± 0.7 9.3 ± 0.2 13.8 ± 0.6 41.9 ± 0.9 7.74 ± 0.19 1.72 ± 0.05
MX1 59.4 ± 0.7 20.3 ± 0.3 27.3 ± 1.2 37.8 ± 0.9 2.92 ± 0.07 1.57 ± 0.05
MX2 61.9 ± 0.7 18.8 ± 0.3 25.8 ± 1.1 38.6 ± 0.9 3.29 ± 0.08 1.61 ± 0.05
MX3 63.4 ± 0.8 17.5 ± 0.3 24.4 ± 1.0 39.2 ± 0.9 3.62 ± 0.09 1.62 ± 0.05
RH8 61.6 ± 1.0 14.0 ± 0.2 20.2 ± 0.9 40.6 ± 0.9 4.40 ± 0.13 1.52 ± 0.05
RH9 62.4 ± 0.9 14.7 ± 0.3 21.0 ± 0.9 40.3 ± 0.9 4.26 ± 0.12 1.55 ± 0.05
RH10 63.2 ± 0.9 15.4 ± 0.3 21.9 ± 0.9 40.1 ± 0.9 4.11 ± 0.12 1.58 ± 0.05
Average 62.3 16.4 22.8 39.5 4.1 1.6
Median 62.4 17.5 24.4 40.1 4.1 1.6
Deviation 4.8 3.9 4.7 1.5 1.6 0.1

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 23.7 ± 4.4 25.9 ± 0.8 35.8 ± 0.8 46.5 ± 0.8 0.92 ± 0.18 0.51 ± 0.10
VC 32.9 ± 3.3 11.4 ± 0.3 17.6 ± 0.4 52.0 ± 0.9 2.89 ± 0.32 0.63 ± 0.07
MX1 26.4 ± 3.6 24.8 ± 0.7 34.8 ± 0.8 47.1 ± 0.8 1.07 ± 0.16 0.56 ± 0.08
MX2 27.9 ± 3.0 23.0 ± 0.7 32.9 ± 0.7 48.0 ± 0.8 1.21 ± 0.15 0.58 ± 0.07
MX3 29.0 ± 2.6 21.5 ± 0.6 31.1 ± 0.7 48.7 ± 0.8 1.35 ± 0.14 0.60 ± 0.06
RH8 28.6 ± 1.6 17.2 ± 0.5 25.7 ± 0.6 50.4 ± 0.9 1.67 ± 0.10 0.57 ± 0.03
RH9 29.1 ± 1.7 17.9 ± 0.5 26.7 ± 0.6 50.1 ± 0.9 1.62 ± 0.11 0.58 ± 0.04
RH10 29.3 ± 1.9 18.8 ± 0.5 27.9 ± 0.6 49.8 ± 0.9 1.56 ± 0.12 0.59 ± 0.04
Average 28.3 20.1 29.1 49.1 1.5 0.6
Median 29.0 21.5 31.1 49.8 1.6 0.6
Deviation 2.6 4.7 5.9 1.8 0.6 0.0

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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