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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20233090827
Observation time: 11/05/2023 309.35234 0827 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2023
Fractional day of year 309.352344
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 30442.5 ± 50.0
Shock type SF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 201.324
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 78.761
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -5.743
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0004
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0159
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0165
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 17.68, 30.80, 37.10
Event added to database
Wed Aug 28 15:42:16 2024
Event last processed
Wed Aug 28 21:09:38 2024
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
74.671 ± 8.472

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -304.6 ± 3.6 -391.1 ± 4.0
Vy GSE [km/s] -1.4 ± 1.8 -5.2 ± 13.5
Vz GSE [km/s] 8.9 ± 1.8 -52.7 ± 7.9
Wi [km/s] 37.5 ± 4.2 54.4 ± 7.0
We [km/s] 1185.4 ± 132.6 1721.0 ± 221.0
Ni [n/cc] 13.8 ± 0.7 25.8 ± 3.7
Bx GSE [nT] 8.4 ± 0.9 8.9 ± 0.4
By GSE [nT] -8.4 ± 0.6 -14.7 ± 1.3
Bz GSE [nT] -3.4 ± 0.5 -17.4 ± 1.8
Plasma Beta
0.272 ± 0.242
0.276 ± 0.252
Sound Speed [km/s]
48.39 ± 5.41
70.26 ± 9.02
Alfven Speed [km/s]
72.66 ± 2.83
105.89 ± 8.53

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.799 ± 0.066 0.540 ± 0.095 -0.266 ± 0.259 -15.41 ± 4.86 145.93 ± 6.72
VC -0.817 ± 0.034 -0.039 ± 0.118 -0.575 ± 0.501 -35.10 ± 3.35 182.71 ± 8.28
MX1 -0.910 ± 0.039 0.368 ± 0.095 -0.192 ± 0.189 -11.05 ± 2.87 158.01 ± 5.96
MX2 -0.947 ± 0.028 0.281 ± 0.090 -0.154 ± 0.153 -8.87 ± 2.76 163.48 ± 5.42
MX3 -0.971 ± 0.020 0.207 ± 0.092 -0.121 ± 0.121 -6.97 ± 2.69 167.98 ± 5.44
RH08 -0.488 ± 0.028 -0.771 ± 0.018 0.408 ± 0.384 24.07 ± 0.36 237.66 ± 2.10
RH09 -0.663 ± 0.053 -0.655 ± 0.054 0.363 ± 0.346 21.29 ± 3.32 224.62 ± 4.49
RH10 -0.993 ± 0.008 0.043 ± 0.070 0.106 ± 0.106 6.09 ± 3.98 177.49 ± 4.04
Average -0.824 -0.003 -0.054 -3.244 182.236
Median -0.817 0.207 -0.121 -6.970 177.493
Deviation 0.174 0.474 0.330 19.656 32.406

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 33.4 ± 3.8 407.9 ± 13.1 1.79 ± 0.20
VC 68.2 ± 5.0 465.9 ± 12.5 1.79 ± 0.20
MX1 35.4 ± 5.0 457.4 ± 12.3 1.79 ± 0.20
MX2 37.6 ± 5.2 473.2 ± 11.8 1.79 ± 0.20
MX3 39.8 ± 5.3 482.5 ± 11.2 1.79 ± 0.20
RH08 85.6 ± 3.2 201.7 ± 5.4 1.79 ± 0.20
RH09 83.8 ± 3.7 295.4 ± 3.5 1.79 ± 0.20
RH10 42.7 ± 5.1 470.6 ± 36.6 1.79 ± 0.20
Average 53.3 406.8 1.79
Median 42.7 465.9 1.79
Deviation 22.2 103.3 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 167.8 ± 3.0 37.0 ± 2.9 60.7 ± 2.4 79.2 ± 2.1 4.56 ± 0.39 2.12 ± 0.05
VC 222.1 ± 2.7 15.1 ± 1.0 26.9 ± 1.1 86.1 ± 2.6 14.76 ± 1.00 2.58 ± 0.07
MX1 182.4 ± 3.3 35.9 ± 2.8 59.2 ± 2.3 79.7 ± 2.1 5.11 ± 0.43 2.29 ± 0.05
MX2 186.3 ± 3.4 34.6 ± 2.7 57.6 ± 2.2 80.3 ± 2.2 5.40 ± 0.44 2.32 ± 0.06
MX3 188.1 ± 3.5 33.3 ± 2.5 55.8 ± 2.2 80.8 ± 2.2 5.67 ± 0.46 2.33 ± 0.06
RH8 48.2 ± 2.1 3.1 ± 0.2 5.6 ± 0.2 87.4 ± 2.7 15.72 ± 1.06 0.55 ± 0.02
RH9 89.2 ± 2.6 4.4 ± 0.3 7.9 ± 0.3 87.3 ± 2.6 20.48 ± 1.38 1.02 ± 0.03
RH10 167.1 ± 3.6 31.6 ± 2.3 53.4 ± 2.1 81.5 ± 2.2 5.30 ± 0.43 2.05 ± 0.05
Average 156.4 24.4 40.9 82.8 9.6 1.9
Median 182.4 33.3 55.8 81.5 5.7 2.3
Deviation 57.8 14.5 23.7 3.5 6.3 0.7

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 84.4 ± 11.0 53.5 ± 4.9 88.4 ± 7.1 115.6 ± 6.5 1.58 ± 0.20 0.74 ± 0.13
VC 115.8 ± 5.5 21.9 ± 1.7 39.3 ± 3.2 125.5 ± 6.2 5.32 ± 0.37 0.93 ± 0.08
MX1 93.3 ± 8.5 51.9 ± 4.7 86.3 ± 7.0 116.3 ± 6.4 1.80 ± 0.18 0.81 ± 0.11
MX2 96.0 ± 7.3 50.1 ± 4.5 83.9 ± 6.8 117.1 ± 6.4 1.92 ± 0.17 0.82 ± 0.10
MX3 97.4 ± 6.3 48.2 ± 4.2 81.3 ± 6.5 117.9 ± 6.3 2.03 ± 0.17 0.83 ± 0.09
RH8 28.1 ± 12.7 4.5 ± 0.3 8.1 ± 0.7 127.4 ± 6.2 6.36 ± 2.89 0.22 ± 0.09
RH9 51.7 ± 10.7 6.3 ± 0.5 11.5 ± 0.9 127.3 ± 6.2 8.22 ± 1.80 0.40 ± 0.07
RH10 87.9 ± 4.1 45.8 ± 4.0 77.9 ± 6.3 118.9 ± 6.3 1.93 ± 0.15 0.74 ± 0.06
Average 81.8 35.3 59.6 120.7 3.6 0.7
Median 93.3 48.2 81.3 118.9 2.0 0.8
Deviation 28.2 21.0 34.5 5.1 2.6 0.2

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 Wed Aug 28 21:49:31 2024
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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