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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20010900115
03/31/2001 90.05227 0115 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)
Year 2001
Fractional day of year 90.052265
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 4515.7 ± 60.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -0.570
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -242.715
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 3.200
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0009
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0267
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0008
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0234
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 7.35, 11.82, 12.63
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:13:11 2005
Event last processed
Sun Mar 13 11:04:31 2005
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
-12.984 ± 1.116

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)
Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -419.0 ± 3.3 -537.8 ± 6.6
Vy GSE [km/s] -4.6 ± 13.2 -86.5 ± 11.0
Vz GSE [km/s] -4.8 ± 4.0 -61.4 ± 16.7
Wi [km/s] 30.1 ± 1.2 65.9 ± 10.7
We [km/s] 950.4 ± 39.5 2082.8 ± 336.8
Ni [n/cc] 35.5 ± 2.4 106.5 ± 22.5
Bx GSE [nT] -0.9 ± 1.3 -1.4 ± 11.1
By GSE [nT] 3.5 ± 1.5 1.3 ± 16.8
Bz GSE [nT] -3.4 ± 1.4 2.1 ± 17.6
Plasma Beta
3.437 ± 2.041
2.148 ± 1.653
Sound Speed [km/s]
38.80 ± 1.61
85.03 ± 13.75
Alfven Speed [km/s]
19.67 ± 4.87
52.72 ± 12.80

Best values of shock front normal for each method (About, Top)
Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.986 ± 0.126 0.101 ± 0.932 0.133 ± 0.132 7.63 ± 36.01 174.16 ± 54.14
VC -0.770 ± 0.050 -0.524 ± 0.061 -0.363 ± 0.346 -21.31 ± 6.16 214.24 ± 4.20
MX1 -0.787 ± 0.181 -0.527 ± 0.259 -0.321 ± 0.309 -18.72 ± 12.22 213.81 ± 18.65
MX2 -0.770 ± 0.083 -0.541 ± 0.108 -0.337 ± 0.323 -19.68 ± 7.79 215.10 ± 7.81
MX3 -0.767 ± 0.079 -0.547 ± 0.101 -0.336 ± 0.323 -19.65 ± 8.13 215.51 ± 7.25
RH08 -0.925 ± 0.005 -0.311 ± 0.013 -0.218 ± 0.214 -12.58 ± 0.71 198.55 ± 0.79
RH09 -0.801 ± 0.041 0.595 ± 0.055 0.061 ± 0.061 3.52 ± 4.03 143.40 ± 3.95
RH10 -0.780 ± 0.043 0.623 ± 0.054 0.061 ± 0.061 3.52 ± 4.03 141.39 ± 3.95
Average -0.823 -0.141 -0.165 -9.658 189.521
Median -0.780 -0.311 -0.218 -12.584 213.813
Deviation 0.084 0.512 0.213 12.380 32.276

Key shock parameters (About, Top)
Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 76.5 ± 22.3 565.8 ± 22.3 3.05 ± 0.65
VC 85.7 ± 18.7 566.1 ± 34.7 3.05 ± 0.65
MX1 87.1 ± 19.1 570.3 ± 34.8 3.05 ± 0.65
MX2 87.3 ± 18.9 564.4 ± 34.9 3.05 ± 0.65
MX3 87.6 ± 18.8 562.8 ± 34.9 3.05 ± 0.65
RH08 80.6 ± 20.6 612.5 ± 31.6 3.05 ± 0.65
RH09 55.7 ± 20.8 397.2 ± 10.0 3.05 ± 0.65
RH10 54.9 ± 20.3 380.9 ± 9.7 3.05 ± 0.65
Average 76.9 527.5 3.05
Median 85.7 565.8 3.05
Deviation 13.9 87.1 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 153.8 ± 2.1 4.1 ± 0.9 4.6 ± 1.1 43.5 ± 2.0 40.70 ± 14.61 3.54 ± 0.19
VC 239.2 ± 9.9 1.3 ± 0.3 1.5 ± 0.4 43.7 ± 2.0 198.42 ± 70.44 5.49 ± 0.45
MX1 236.6 ± 9.9 0.9 ± 0.2 1.0 ± 0.2 43.7 ± 2.0 292.96 ± 104.10 5.43 ± 0.44
MX2 237.5 ± 10.1 0.8 ± 0.2 0.9 ± 0.2 43.7 ± 2.0 316.82 ± 112.55 5.45 ± 0.45
MX3 237.4 ± 10.2 0.7 ± 0.2 0.8 ± 0.2 43.7 ± 2.0 353.90 ± 125.74 5.45 ± 0.45
RH8 222.3 ± 7.4 2.8 ± 0.6 3.2 ± 0.8 43.6 ± 2.0 84.19 ± 29.94 5.11 ± 0.37
RH9 64.5 ± 5.9 10.0 ± 2.3 11.1 ± 2.7 42.5 ± 1.8 6.90 ± 2.62 1.52 ± 0.13
RH10 57.3 ± 6.3 10.3 ± 2.3 11.3 ± 2.8 42.5 ± 1.8 5.99 ± 2.31 1.35 ± 0.14
Average 181.1 3.9 4.3 43.4 162.5 4.2
Median 236.6 2.8 3.2 43.7 198.4 5.4
Deviation 79.4 4.1 4.5 0.6 145.6 1.8

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 52.4 ± 7.5 10.2 ± 1.7 12.3 ± 3.0 100.7 ± 9.2 5.36 ± 1.50 0.53 ± 0.11
VC 84.2 ± 9.7 3.2 ± 0.5 3.9 ± 1.0 101.2 ± 9.2 26.71 ± 5.38 0.84 ± 0.11
MX1 81.8 ± 9.6 2.2 ± 0.4 2.6 ± 0.6 101.2 ± 9.2 38.72 ± 7.86 0.81 ± 0.11
MX2 82.6 ± 9.8 2.0 ± 0.3 2.5 ± 0.6 101.2 ± 9.2 42.11 ± 8.50 0.82 ± 0.11
MX3 82.5 ± 9.8 1.8 ± 0.3 2.2 ± 0.5 101.2 ± 9.2 47.02 ± 9.48 0.82 ± 0.11
RH8 74.6 ± 7.8 7.1 ± 1.2 8.6 ± 2.1 101.0 ± 9.2 10.83 ± 2.34 0.74 ± 0.10
RH9 21.5 ± 6.1 25.2 ± 4.4 29.7 ± 7.2 97.9 ± 9.3 0.91 ± 0.42 0.22 ± 0.07
RH10 19.0 ± 6.2 25.8 ± 4.5 30.3 ± 7.4 97.8 ± 9.3 0.79 ± 0.40 0.20 ± 0.07
Average 62.3 9.7 11.5 100.3 21.6 0.6
Median 81.8 7.1 8.6 101.2 26.7 0.8
Deviation 28.0 10.2 11.9 1.5 19.4 0.3

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 12:08:37 2005
Justin C Kasper (jck@mit.edu)