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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20100300128
Observation time: 01/30/2010 30.06148 0128 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2010
Fractional day of year 30.061476
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 5311.5 ± 20.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 201.338
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -79.297
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -9.593
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0002
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0077
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0001
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0052
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 -472.59, -409.80, -360.20
Event added to database
 Fri Sep 20 15:14:06 2013
Event last processed
 Tue Oct 8 16:12:33 2013
Method selected
 RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
 -0.063 ± 2.093

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -344.1 ± 0.7 -364.1 ± -364.1
Vy GSE [km/s] -9.8 ± 1.4 -23.2 ± -23.2
Vz GSE [km/s] 5.3 ± 0.2 6.4 ± 6.4
Wi [km/s] 26.6 ± 1.4 32.0 ± 32.0
We [km/s] 839.9 ± 45.1 1013.3 ± 1013.3
Ni [n/cc] 6.8 ± 0.0 9.5 ± 9.5
Bx GSE [nT] 0.1 ± 0.2 -1.5 ± -1.5
By GSE [nT] 2.0 ± 0.3 3.0 ± 3.0
Bz GSE [nT] -5.4 ± 0.0 -7.2 ± -7.2
Plasma Beta
 0.305 ± 0.319
 0.326 ± 0.326
Sound Speed [km/s]
 34.29 ± -0.00
 41.37 ± -0.00
Alfven Speed [km/s]
 48.12 ± -0.00
 56.16 ± -0.00

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.753 ± 0.080 -0.058 ± 0.142 0.655 ± 0.540 40.95 ± 6.96 184.43 ± 10.81
VC -0.830 ± 0.035 -0.555 ± 0.053 0.044 ± 0.044 2.52 ± 0.48 213.77 ± 3.65
MX1 -0.739 ± 0.017 -0.595 ± 0.018 0.316 ± 0.305 18.44 ± 2.83 218.84 ± 1.14
MX2 -0.726 ± 0.021 -0.625 ± 0.022 0.286 ± 0.278 16.63 ± 3.60 220.70 ± 1.51
MX3 -0.698 ± 0.019 -0.679 ± 0.019 0.228 ± 0.224 13.19 ± 4.18 224.18 ± 1.28
RH08 -0.327 ± 0.066 0.252 ± 0.068 -0.911 ± 0.473 -65.59 ± 3.97 142.40 ± 9.79
RH09 -0.307 ± 0.027 0.237 ± 0.022 -0.922 ± 0.455 -67.19 ± 2.00 142.40 ± 2.00
RH10 -0.307 ± 0.027 0.237 ± 0.022 -0.922 ± 0.455 -67.19 ± 2.00 142.40 ± 2.00
Average -0.586 -0.223 -0.153 -13.530 186.139
Median -0.698 -0.058 0.228 13.185 213.772
Deviation 0.229 0.430 0.655 45.262 38.206

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 49.8 ± 2.7 ****** ± ****** 1.39 ± 0.01
VC 76.1 ± 0.2 ****** ± ****** 1.39 ± 0.01
MX1 59.4 ± 0.2 ****** ± ****** 1.39 ± 0.01
MX2 60.6 ± 0.0 ****** ± ****** 1.39 ± 0.01
MX3 63.0 ± 0.3 ****** ± ****** 1.39 ± 0.01
RH08 20.5 ± 1.4 ****** ± ****** 1.39 ± 0.01
RH09 19.6 ± 1.2 ****** ± ****** 1.39 ± 0.01
RH10 19.6 ± 1.2 ****** ± ****** 1.39 ± 0.01
Average 46.1 ****** 1.39
Median 59.4 ****** 1.39
Deviation 22.8 0.0 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC ******* ± -0.0 19.1 ± -0.0 31.1 ± -0.0 55.9 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
VC ******* ± -0.0 6.8 ± -0.0 11.6 ± -0.0 58.7 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
MX1 ******* ± -0.0 14.7 ± -0.0 24.5 ± -0.0 57.2 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
MX2 ******* ± -0.0 14.1 ± -0.0 23.6 ± -0.0 57.4 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
MX3 ******* ± -0.0 13.0 ± -0.0 21.8 ± -0.0 57.6 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
RH8 ******* ± -0.0 30.6 ± -0.0 45.1 ± -0.0 50.6 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
RH9 ******* ± -0.0 30.8 ± -0.0 45.3 ± -0.0 50.4 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
RH10 ******* ± -0.0 30.8 ± -0.0 45.3 ± -0.0 50.4 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
Average ******* 20.0 31.0 54.8 -6446.6 -1837.2
Median ******* 19.1 31.1 57.2 -5266.9 -1752.5
Deviation 85.6 9.5 12.9 3.7 3865.2 124.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC ******* ± -0.0 22.8 ± -0.0 36.3 ± -0.0 65.9 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
VC ******* ± -0.0 8.1 ± -0.0 13.5 ± -0.0 69.3 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
MX1 ******* ± -0.0 17.5 ± -0.0 28.6 ± -0.0 67.5 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
MX2 ******* ± -0.0 16.8 ± -0.0 27.5 ± -0.0 67.7 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
MX3 ******* ± -0.0 15.5 ± -0.0 25.5 ± -0.0 68.0 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
RH8 ******* ± -0.0 36.7 ± -0.0 52.6 ± -0.0 59.3 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
RH9 ******* ± -0.0 37.0 ± -0.0 52.9 ± -0.0 59.1 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
RH10 ******* ± -0.0 37.0 ± -0.0 52.9 ± -0.0 59.1 ± -0.0 ******* ± -1.00 ******* ± -1.00
Average ******* 23.9 36.2 64.5 -5390.6 -1560.7
Median ******* 22.8 36.3 67.5 -4405.3 -1485.4
Deviation 96.0 11.5 15.1 4.5 3243.8 110.3

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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