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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20002241849
08/11/2000 224.78443 1849 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)
Year 2000
Fractional day of year 224.784427
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 67774.5 ± 5.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -15.648
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -59.079
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -5.580
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0304
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0466
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 10.09, 17.50, 18.71
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:10:16 2005
Event last processed
Sun Mar 13 10:57:37 2005
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
-2.964 ± 1.298

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)
Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -408.4 ± 8.4 -510.9 ± 10.9
Vy GSE [km/s] 1.9 ± 3.6 -34.7 ± 10.7
Vz GSE [km/s] -18.7 ± 18.2 -116.2 ± 11.6
Wi [km/s] 27.9 ± 7.5 65.3 ± 12.7
We [km/s] 883.3 ± 238.4 2063.9 ± 402.2
Ni [n/cc] 1.6 ± 0.5 3.6 ± 0.5
Bx GSE [nT] -2.2 ± 0.4 -4.1 ± 1.5
By GSE [nT] 9.0 ± 0.3 19.1 ± 1.0
Bz GSE [nT] -0.7 ± 0.8 0.7 ± 1.6
Plasma Beta
0.033 ± 0.029
0.091 ± 0.078
Sound Speed [km/s]
36.06 ± 9.73
84.26 ± 16.42
Alfven Speed [km/s]
169.17 ± 25.46
226.49 ± 21.01

Best values of shock front normal for each method (About, Top)
Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.901 ± 0.384 0.159 ± 0.815 -0.403 ± 0.380 -23.76 ± 51.47 170.00 ± 51.66
VC -0.707 ± 0.075 -0.253 ± 0.070 -0.661 ± 0.542 -41.36 ± 6.52 199.72 ± 5.32
MX1 -0.746 ± 0.075 -0.037 ± 0.104 -0.664 ± 0.543 -41.64 ± 6.43 182.84 ± 8.02
MX2 -0.755 ± 0.068 -0.046 ± 0.101 -0.654 ± 0.539 -40.84 ± 5.92 183.50 ± 7.68
MX3 -0.762 ± 0.065 -0.053 ± 0.100 -0.645 ± 0.536 -40.15 ± 5.75 184.00 ± 7.49
RH08 -0.940 ± 0.004 -0.025 ± 0.012 -0.341 ± 0.327 -19.92 ± 0.71 181.50 ± 0.71
RH09 -0.944 ± 0.023 -0.008 ± 0.071 -0.330 ± 0.317 -19.25 ± 4.00 180.50 ± 4.29
RH10 -0.948 ± 0.022 0.008 ± 0.070 -0.318 ± 0.307 -18.57 ± 3.99 179.50 ± 4.26
Average -0.838 -0.032 -0.502 -30.687 182.696
Median -0.762 -0.025 -0.403 -23.765 182.843
Deviation 0.104 0.112 0.167 11.137 8.193

Key shock parameters (About, Top)
Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 66.6 ± 4.0 597.3 ± 156.7 2.38 ± 0.65
VC 88.4 ± 4.7 549.9 ± 177.3 2.38 ± 0.65
MX1 79.0 ± 4.7 565.1 ± 173.3 2.38 ± 0.65
MX2 79.5 ± 4.7 568.9 ± 173.7 2.38 ± 0.65
MX3 79.8 ± 4.6 572.0 ± 174.0 2.38 ± 0.65
RH08 77.0 ± 3.7 617.4 ± 163.2 2.38 ± 0.65
RH09 76.1 ± 3.7 616.3 ± 161.9 2.38 ± 0.65
RH10 75.1 ± 3.7 614.9 ± 160.4 2.38 ± 0.65
Average 77.7 587.7 2.38
Median 79.0 597.3 2.38
Deviation 6.0 26.9 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 221.4 ± 13.6 14.0 ± 3.6 67.2 ± 10.1 172.8 ± 24.4 16.77 ± 4.07 1.31 ± 0.24
VC 249.5 ± 17.2 1.0 ± 0.3 4.9 ± 0.7 173.4 ± 24.3 262.11 ± 64.23 1.47 ± 0.27
MX1 248.0 ± 17.2 6.7 ± 1.7 32.1 ± 4.8 173.2 ± 24.3 39.39 ± 9.71 1.46 ± 0.27
MX2 248.4 ± 17.1 6.4 ± 1.6 30.9 ± 4.6 173.2 ± 24.3 41.08 ± 10.11 1.47 ± 0.27
MX3 248.7 ± 17.0 6.2 ± 1.6 29.9 ± 4.5 173.3 ± 24.3 42.46 ± 10.44 1.47 ± 0.27
RH8 227.3 ± 13.1 7.9 ± 2.0 38.0 ± 5.7 173.2 ± 24.3 30.50 ± 7.27 1.34 ± 0.24
RH9 224.6 ± 13.0 8.4 ± 2.1 40.7 ± 6.1 173.1 ± 24.3 28.12 ± 6.71 1.33 ± 0.24
RH10 221.8 ± 12.8 9.0 ± 2.3 43.4 ± 6.5 173.1 ± 24.3 26.02 ± 6.21 1.31 ± 0.23
Average 236.2 7.4 35.9 173.2 60.8 1.4
Median 248.0 7.9 38.0 173.2 39.4 1.5
Deviation 13.4 3.6 17.3 0.2 81.8 0.1

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 95.5 ± 9.1 31.4 ± 5.4 90.0 ± 8.3 240.3 ± 17.0 3.12 ± 0.56 0.40 ± 0.06
VC 103.3 ± 9.4 2.2 ± 0.4 6.5 ± 0.6 242.4 ± 16.7 47.47 ± 11.26 0.43 ± 0.06
MX1 105.3 ± 8.9 14.9 ± 2.5 43.0 ± 4.0 242.0 ± 16.8 7.29 ± 1.59 0.44 ± 0.06
MX2 105.5 ± 9.0 14.3 ± 2.4 41.3 ± 3.8 242.0 ± 16.7 7.60 ± 1.66 0.44 ± 0.06
MX3 105.7 ± 9.0 13.8 ± 2.3 40.0 ± 3.7 242.0 ± 16.7 7.86 ± 1.71 0.44 ± 0.06
RH8 96.8 ± 9.6 17.6 ± 3.0 50.9 ± 4.7 241.8 ± 16.8 5.63 ± 1.05 0.40 ± 0.06
RH9 95.4 ± 9.6 18.9 ± 3.2 54.5 ± 5.1 241.7 ± 16.8 5.17 ± 0.95 0.40 ± 0.06
RH10 93.9 ± 9.6 20.2 ± 3.4 58.2 ± 5.4 241.6 ± 16.8 4.77 ± 0.87 0.39 ± 0.06
Average 100.2 16.7 48.1 241.7 11.1 0.4
Median 103.3 17.6 50.9 242.0 7.3 0.4
Deviation 5.2 8.1 23.2 0.6 14.8 0.0

Survey interval (About, Top)
Survey of solar wind interval
Selected data (About, Top)
Key plasma parameters
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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 12:08:29 2005
Justin C Kasper (jck@mit.edu)