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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20002790328
10/05/2000 279.14491 0328 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)
Year 2000
Fractional day of year 279.144913
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 12520.5 ± 1.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 31.910
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -250.616
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -2.736
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0298
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0010
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0297
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 10.35, 32.18, 33.42
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:10:38 2005
Event last processed
Sun Mar 13 10:58:36 2005
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
3.238 ± 0.513

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)
Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -362.5 ± 1.5 -466.1 ± 5.6
Vy GSE [km/s] -33.7 ± 1.4 -41.9 ± 6.0
Vz GSE [km/s] -17.6 ± 1.3 19.6 ± 4.6
Wi [km/s] 25.8 ± 1.1 39.8 ± 2.3
We [km/s] 815.6 ± 35.4 1259.5 ± 73.3
Ni [n/cc] 7.2 ± 0.3 17.1 ± 1.5
Bx GSE [nT] -2.6 ± 0.2 -4.4 ± 0.5
By GSE [nT] -0.3 ± 0.2 -2.8 ± 1.2
Bz GSE [nT] -5.1 ± 0.2 -17.2 ± 0.9
Plasma Beta
0.302 ± 0.308
0.177 ± 0.186
Sound Speed [km/s]
33.30 ± 1.45
51.42 ± 2.99
Alfven Speed [km/s]
46.95 ± 1.00
94.97 ± 3.82

Best values of shock front normal for each method (About, Top)
Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.926 ± 0.095 0.376 ± 0.234 0.037 ± 0.037 2.13 ± 4.20 157.87 ± 14.47
VC -0.938 ± 0.018 -0.073 ± 0.049 0.338 ± 0.324 19.75 ± 2.92 184.44 ± 3.01
MX1 -0.984 ± 0.009 -0.080 ± 0.047 0.158 ± 0.157 9.12 ± 3.04 184.65 ± 2.76
MX2 -0.981 ± 0.009 -0.102 ± 0.037 0.164 ± 0.162 9.43 ± 2.94 185.95 ± 2.18
MX3 -0.980 ± 0.009 -0.112 ± 0.035 0.166 ± 0.165 9.56 ± 2.91 186.53 ± 2.02
RH08 -0.979 ± 0.001 -0.060 ± 0.010 0.196 ± 0.193 11.28 ± 0.38 183.51 ± 0.58
RH09 -0.997 ± 0.005 -0.044 ± 0.069 0.061 ± 0.061 3.52 ± 4.03 182.51 ± 3.95
RH10 -0.998 ± 0.004 -0.026 ± 0.068 0.050 ± 0.050 2.88 ± 4.06 181.50 ± 3.91
Average -0.973 -0.015 0.146 8.458 180.870
Median -0.980 -0.060 0.164 9.427 184.437
Deviation 0.027 0.161 0.099 5.774 9.442

Key shock parameters (About, Top)
Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 68.7 ± 3.5 481.3 ± 16.5 2.38 ± 0.24
VC 82.8 ± 3.0 523.2 ± 18.9 2.38 ± 0.24
MX1 72.2 ± 3.0 538.6 ± 19.7 2.38 ± 0.24
MX2 72.5 ± 2.9 538.7 ± 19.7 2.38 ± 0.24
MX3 72.6 ± 2.9 538.6 ± 19.8 2.38 ± 0.24
RH08 74.4 ± 3.0 537.0 ± 19.5 2.38 ± 0.24
RH09 66.7 ± 3.0 539.9 ± 19.7 2.38 ± 0.24
RH10 66.1 ± 3.1 539.0 ± 19.6 2.38 ± 0.24
Average 72.0 529.5 2.38
Median 72.5 538.6 2.38
Deviation 5.3 20.2 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 159.1 ± 1.4 10.0 ± 0.3 17.1 ± 0.4 56.7 ± 1.3 15.90 ± 0.62 2.81 ± 0.08
VC 186.6 ± 1.2 3.4 ± 0.1 5.9 ± 0.1 57.5 ± 1.3 54.94 ± 2.05 3.25 ± 0.09
MX1 182.0 ± 1.4 8.4 ± 0.3 14.4 ± 0.3 57.0 ± 1.3 21.71 ± 0.84 3.20 ± 0.09
MX2 182.5 ± 1.4 8.3 ± 0.3 14.1 ± 0.3 57.0 ± 1.3 22.14 ± 0.86 3.20 ± 0.09
MX3 182.7 ± 1.4 8.2 ± 0.3 14.0 ± 0.3 57.0 ± 1.3 22.33 ± 0.86 3.21 ± 0.09
RH8 183.6 ± 1.4 7.4 ± 0.2 12.6 ± 0.3 57.1 ± 1.3 24.93 ± 0.96 3.22 ± 0.09
RH9 178.1 ± 1.5 11.0 ± 0.4 18.6 ± 0.4 56.5 ± 1.3 16.28 ± 0.64 3.15 ± 0.09
RH10 177.1 ± 1.5 11.2 ± 0.4 19.0 ± 0.4 56.5 ± 1.3 15.79 ± 0.62 3.14 ± 0.09
Average 179.0 8.5 14.5 56.9 24.3 3.1
Median 182.5 8.4 14.4 57.0 22.1 3.2
Deviation 8.6 2.5 4.2 0.3 12.9 0.1

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 65.0 ± 3.7 16.6 ± 0.8 34.5 ± 1.4 106.7 ± 4.0 3.92 ± 0.34 0.61 ± 0.04
VC 76.2 ± 5.0 5.7 ± 0.3 11.9 ± 0.5 107.9 ± 4.0 13.50 ± 1.16 0.71 ± 0.05
MX1 73.5 ± 5.6 13.9 ± 0.7 29.0 ± 1.2 107.1 ± 4.0 5.29 ± 0.50 0.69 ± 0.05
MX2 73.9 ± 5.6 13.7 ± 0.7 28.6 ± 1.1 107.2 ± 4.0 5.41 ± 0.51 0.69 ± 0.05
MX3 74.1 ± 5.7 13.6 ± 0.7 28.4 ± 1.1 107.2 ± 4.0 5.46 ± 0.52 0.69 ± 0.05
RH8 74.4 ± 5.4 12.2 ± 0.6 25.6 ± 1.0 107.3 ± 4.0 6.09 ± 0.56 0.69 ± 0.05
RH9 72.1 ± 5.7 18.2 ± 0.9 37.6 ± 1.5 106.5 ± 4.0 3.98 ± 0.39 0.68 ± 0.05
RH10 71.6 ± 5.6 18.6 ± 0.9 38.5 ± 1.5 106.4 ± 4.0 3.86 ± 0.38 0.67 ± 0.05
Average 72.6 14.1 29.3 107.0 5.9 0.7
Median 73.9 13.9 29.0 107.2 5.4 0.7
Deviation 3.4 4.1 8.5 0.5 3.2 0.0

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 12:08:30 2005
Justin C Kasper (jck@mit.edu)