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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20000422333
02/11/2000 42.98189 2333 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)
Year 2000
Fractional day of year 42.981892
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 84835.5 ± 3.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 131.905
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -2.264
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 9.090
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0303
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0233
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 6.08, 30.01, 31.86
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:09:11 2005
Event last processed
Sun Mar 13 10:54:38 2005
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
18.745 ± 1.161

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)
Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -429.7 ± 2.7 -582.6 ± 6.4
Vy GSE [km/s] -17.7 ± 2.9 -106.8 ± 4.6
Vz GSE [km/s] -8.9 ± 2.2 33.9 ± 9.2
Wi [km/s] 36.3 ± 1.6 60.1 ± 2.1
We [km/s] 1148.0 ± 50.8 1899.3 ± 65.6
Ni [n/cc] 5.0 ± 0.4 16.1 ± 1.4
Bx GSE [nT] 2.4 ± 0.3 10.1 ± 1.0
By GSE [nT] -6.1 ± 0.2 -20.1 ± 1.2
Bz GSE [nT] -0.5 ± 0.6 0.8 ± 2.3
Plasma Beta
0.314 ± 0.303
0.238 ± 0.242
Sound Speed [km/s]
46.87 ± 2.07
77.54 ± 2.68
Alfven Speed [km/s]
64.94 ± 1.64
123.32 ± 5.60

Best values of shock front normal for each method (About, Top)
Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.632 ± 0.381 -0.522 ± 0.377 -0.573 ± 0.500 -34.98 ± 39.06 219.58 ± 25.64
VC -0.840 ± 0.016 -0.489 ± 0.020 0.236 ± 0.231 13.65 ± 3.04 210.22 ± 1.33
MX1 -0.859 ± 0.027 -0.453 ± 0.047 0.239 ± 0.235 13.85 ± 2.89 207.84 ± 3.12
MX2 -0.859 ± 0.026 -0.455 ± 0.046 0.236 ± 0.232 13.65 ± 2.96 207.92 ± 3.04
MX3 -0.859 ± 0.026 -0.455 ± 0.046 0.235 ± 0.231 13.59 ± 3.02 207.94 ± 3.02
RH08 -0.867 ± 0.002 -0.453 ± 0.001 0.207 ± 0.204 11.93 ± 0.65 207.58 ± 0.00
RH09 -0.922 ± 0.027 -0.383 ± 0.064 0.061 ± 0.061 3.52 ± 4.03 202.56 ± 3.95
RH10 -0.923 ± 0.026 -0.383 ± 0.063 -0.039 ± 0.039 -2.24 ± 4.06 202.56 ± 3.91
Average -0.845 -0.449 0.075 4.122 208.276
Median -0.859 -0.453 0.235 13.589 207.916
Deviation 0.091 0.047 0.282 16.888 5.316

Key shock parameters (About, Top)
Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 72.2 ± 4.0 458.7 ± 10.6 3.27 ± 0.50
VC 82.3 ± 2.3 631.1 ± 13.2 3.27 ± 0.50
MX1 84.6 ± 2.3 638.1 ± 13.3 3.27 ± 0.50
MX2 84.5 ± 2.3 638.3 ± 13.3 3.27 ± 0.50
MX3 84.5 ± 2.3 638.3 ± 13.2 3.27 ± 0.50
RH08 84.7 ± 2.3 642.5 ± 13.1 3.27 ± 0.50
RH09 88.8 ± 2.3 660.3 ± 12.5 3.27 ± 0.50
RH10 88.4 ± 2.4 655.7 ± 12.1 3.27 ± 0.50
Average 83.8 620.4 3.27
Median 84.6 638.3 3.27
Deviation 5.1 66.1 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 172.9 ± 2.7 11.7 ± 0.3 19.8 ± 0.5 79.3 ± 1.1 14.79 ± 0.42 2.18 ± 0.05
VC 263.6 ± 2.4 5.1 ± 0.1 8.7 ± 0.2 80.0 ± 1.1 51.76 ± 1.32 3.30 ± 0.06
MX1 263.2 ± 2.4 3.6 ± 0.1 6.1 ± 0.2 80.0 ± 1.1 73.78 ± 1.86 3.29 ± 0.06
MX2 263.3 ± 2.4 3.6 ± 0.1 6.2 ± 0.2 80.0 ± 1.1 72.56 ± 1.83 3.29 ± 0.06
MX3 263.3 ± 2.4 3.7 ± 0.1 6.2 ± 0.2 80.0 ± 1.1 72.13 ± 1.82 3.29 ± 0.06
RH8 263.6 ± 2.4 3.5 ± 0.1 6.0 ± 0.2 80.0 ± 1.1 74.64 ± 1.87 3.29 ± 0.06
RH9 258.0 ± 2.6 0.8 ± 0.0 1.3 ± 0.0 80.1 ± 1.1 332.50 ± 8.05 3.22 ± 0.06
RH10 252.0 ± 2.6 1.1 ± 0.0 1.9 ± 0.0 80.1 ± 1.1 232.11 ± 5.61 3.15 ± 0.06
Average 250.0 4.1 7.0 79.9 115.5 3.1
Median 263.3 3.6 6.2 80.0 73.8 3.3
Deviation 31.4 3.4 5.7 0.3 108.2 0.4

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 54.4 ± 9.6 20.2 ± 0.7 37.6 ± 1.7 144.3 ± 5.8 2.70 ± 0.51 0.38 ± 0.07
VC 81.6 ± 6.3 8.8 ± 0.3 16.5 ± 0.8 145.4 ± 5.8 9.28 ± 0.89 0.56 ± 0.05
MX1 81.3 ± 6.3 6.2 ± 0.2 11.6 ± 0.5 145.6 ± 5.8 13.20 ± 1.26 0.56 ± 0.05
MX2 81.4 ± 6.3 6.3 ± 0.2 11.8 ± 0.5 145.5 ± 5.8 12.99 ± 1.24 0.56 ± 0.05
MX3 81.4 ± 6.3 6.3 ± 0.2 11.9 ± 0.5 145.5 ± 5.8 12.92 ± 1.23 0.56 ± 0.05
RH8 81.8 ± 6.4 6.1 ± 0.2 11.5 ± 0.5 145.6 ± 5.8 13.41 ± 1.29 0.56 ± 0.05
RH9 80.3 ± 6.9 1.3 ± 0.0 2.5 ± 0.1 145.7 ± 5.8 59.95 ± 6.11 0.55 ± 0.06
RH10 78.5 ± 7.3 1.9 ± 0.1 3.5 ± 0.2 145.7 ± 5.8 41.85 ± 4.55 0.54 ± 0.06
Average 77.6 7.1 13.4 145.4 20.8 0.5
Median 81.4 6.3 11.8 145.6 13.2 0.6
Deviation 9.4 5.8 10.8 0.5 19.5 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



Conservation of Individual Rankine-Hugoniot Equations (About, Top)
Bn
Etx
Ety
Etz
Gn
Sn
Stx
Sty
Stz
Un


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 Sun Mar 13 12:08:26 2005
Justin C Kasper (jck@mit.edu)