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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20240630905
Observation time: 03/03/2024 63.37877 0905 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)

Year 2024
Fractional day of year 63.378767
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 32725.5 ± 120.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 206.952
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -95.133
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -2.615
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0006
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0202
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0005
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0155
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 14.18, 31.61, 33.83
Event added to database
Wed Aug 28 16:34:12 2024
Event last processed
Wed Aug 28 21:15:02 2024
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
52.596 ± 0.892

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)

Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -290.7 ± 3.5 -330.2 ± 1.1
Vy GSE [km/s] -2.4 ± 2.1 -24.8 ± 0.7
Vz GSE [km/s] -17.7 ± 3.6 -9.4 ± 1.6
Wi [km/s] 14.7 ± 0.4 23.3 ± 1.5
We [km/s] 464.2 ± 14.1 736.9 ± 47.5
Ni [n/cc] 11.9 ± 0.8 35.7 ± 2.1
Bx GSE [nT] 0.7 ± 0.4 1.0 ± 0.5
By GSE [nT] -0.2 ± 0.1 -3.5 ± 0.2
Bz GSE [nT] -1.1 ± 0.3 -2.8 ± 0.6
Plasma Beta
2.713 ± 2.712
1.930 ± 2.146
Sound Speed [km/s]
18.95 ± 0.57
30.08 ± 1.94
Alfven Speed [km/s]
8.92 ± 0.20
16.88 ± 1.38

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

Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.554 ± 0.256 -0.426 ± 0.268 0.715 ± 0.557 45.67 ± 18.91 217.61 ± 23.44
VC -0.855 ± 0.035 -0.487 ± 0.058 0.181 ± 0.179 10.41 ± 4.66 209.67 ± 3.83
MX1 -0.839 ± 0.097 -0.283 ± 0.139 0.466 ± 0.429 27.76 ± 11.06 198.62 ± 9.28
MX2 -0.904 ± 0.051 -0.244 ± 0.146 0.352 ± 0.336 20.58 ± 5.52 195.10 ± 9.26
MX3 -0.919 ± 0.045 -0.233 ± 0.150 0.318 ± 0.306 18.52 ± 4.39 194.24 ± 9.33
RH08 -0.963 ± 0.004 -0.250 ± 0.014 0.106 ± 0.106 6.09 ± 0.85 194.54 ± 0.82
RH09 -0.936 ± 0.025 0.191 ± 0.069 -0.296 ± 0.287 -17.22 ± 4.00 168.47 ± 4.23
RH10 -0.974 ± 0.016 0.129 ± 0.070 -0.184 ± 0.182 -10.62 ± 4.00 172.48 ± 4.11
Average -0.868 -0.200 0.207 12.649 193.841
Median -0.904 -0.244 0.318 18.520 195.099
Deviation 0.136 0.241 0.333 20.347 16.650

Key shock parameters (About, Top)

Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 38.0 ± 4.2 205.4 ± 0.7 3.05 ± 0.08
VC 57.8 ± 15.9 316.2 ± 0.6 3.05 ± 0.08
MX1 39.2 ± 14.0 301.6 ± 0.6 3.05 ± 0.08
MX2 42.8 ± 17.3 323.7 ± 0.6 3.05 ± 0.08
MX3 44.1 ± 18.1 328.8 ± 0.6 3.05 ± 0.08
RH08 55.0 ± 19.9 345.9 ± 0.6 3.05 ± 0.08
RH09 73.1 ± 20.5 322.5 ± 0.5 3.05 ± 0.08
RH10 66.7 ± 20.9 337.6 ± 2.6 3.05 ± 0.08
Average 52.1 310.2 3.05
Median 55.0 323.7 3.05
Deviation 13.2 44.4 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 56.1 ± 2.3 6.7 ± 0.1 7.0 ± 0.2 19.8 ± 0.5 8.36 ± 0.26 2.83 ± 0.13
VC 69.9 ± 2.1 4.4 ± 0.1 4.8 ± 0.1 20.5 ± 0.5 15.88 ± 0.52 3.41 ± 0.10
MX1 65.4 ± 1.9 6.6 ± 0.1 6.9 ± 0.2 19.9 ± 0.5 9.93 ± 0.30 3.29 ± 0.10
MX2 66.6 ± 2.2 6.2 ± 0.1 6.5 ± 0.1 20.0 ± 0.5 10.75 ± 0.39 3.33 ± 0.11
MX3 66.7 ± 2.2 6.1 ± 0.1 6.4 ± 0.1 20.1 ± 0.5 11.02 ± 0.42 3.33 ± 0.11
RH8 67.5 ± 2.8 4.8 ± 0.1 5.1 ± 0.1 20.4 ± 0.5 14.21 ± 0.67 3.31 ± 0.13
RH9 45.7 ± 4.4 2.4 ± 0.0 2.6 ± 0.1 20.8 ± 0.5 19.42 ± 2.07 2.20 ± 0.20
RH10 51.5 ± 4.1 3.2 ± 0.1 3.5 ± 0.1 20.7 ± 0.5 15.94 ± 1.42 2.49 ± 0.19
Average 61.2 5.0 5.4 20.3 13.2 3.0
Median 66.6 6.1 6.4 20.4 14.2 3.3
Deviation 8.9 1.6 1.7 0.4 3.8 0.5

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)

Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 18.7 ± 1.4 12.4 ± 0.9 13.3 ± 1.1 32.2 ± 1.9 1.51 ± 0.14 0.58 ± 0.04
VC 23.7 ± 1.0 8.1 ± 0.6 9.0 ± 0.7 33.6 ± 2.0 2.95 ± 0.19 0.71 ± 0.04
MX1 22.1 ± 1.3 12.2 ± 0.9 13.1 ± 1.1 32.3 ± 1.9 1.82 ± 0.15 0.68 ± 0.05
MX2 22.5 ± 1.3 11.4 ± 0.8 12.4 ± 1.0 32.6 ± 1.9 1.98 ± 0.15 0.69 ± 0.05
MX3 22.5 ± 1.2 11.2 ± 0.8 12.1 ± 1.0 32.7 ± 1.9 2.02 ± 0.15 0.69 ± 0.05
RH8 22.9 ± 1.1 8.7 ± 0.6 9.7 ± 0.8 33.4 ± 2.0 2.64 ± 0.19 0.69 ± 0.05
RH9 15.4 ± 1.0 4.3 ± 0.3 4.9 ± 0.4 34.2 ± 2.0 3.61 ± 0.33 0.45 ± 0.05
RH10 17.3 ± 1.1 5.9 ± 0.4 6.7 ± 0.5 34.0 ± 2.0 2.95 ± 0.25 0.51 ± 0.05
Average 20.6 9.3 10.1 33.1 2.4 0.6
Median 22.5 11.2 12.1 33.4 2.6 0.7
Deviation 3.1 3.0 3.1 0.8 0.7 0.1

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 21:49:05 2024
Michael L Stevens (mstevens@cfa.harvard.edu)

   
 

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