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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20011011617
04/11/2001 101.67915 1617 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)
Year 2001
Fractional day of year 101.679149
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 58678.5 ± 4.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 3.710
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -262.450
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -0.530
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0011
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0336
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0009
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0338
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 9.20, 15.88, 16.26
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:13:27 2005
Event last processed
Sun Mar 13 11:06:30 2005
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
-4.078 ± 0.643

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)
Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -651.0 ± 6.1 -717.3 ± 11.8
Vy GSE [km/s] 26.4 ± 10.4 -41.8 ± 6.4
Vz GSE [km/s] 46.8 ± 19.1 181.4 ± 15.5
Wi [km/s] 131.8 ± 8.2 168.2 ± 5.7
We [km/s] 4167.9 ± 260.0 5320.0 ± 179.8
Ni [n/cc] 14.5 ± 1.6 32.7 ± 1.5
Bx GSE [nT] 13.1 ± 1.0 18.0 ± 2.3
By GSE [nT] 3.4 ± 2.1 3.8 ± 2.1
Bz GSE [nT] 0.7 ± 4.4 16.4 ± 3.4
Plasma Beta
2.802 ± 2.835
3.178 ± 3.118
Sound Speed [km/s]
170.15 ± 10.62
217.19 ± 7.34
Alfven Speed [km/s]
82.31 ± 12.48
95.36 ± 7.67

Best values of shock front normal for each method (About, Top)
Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.920 ± 0.093 -0.314 ± 0.250 0.233 ± 0.229 13.46 ± 9.81 198.85 ± 15.52
VC -0.410 ± 0.093 -0.421 ± 0.094 0.809 ± 0.554 54.03 ± 7.91 225.80 ± 7.01
MX1 -0.907 ± 0.090 -0.323 ± 0.215 0.270 ± 0.263 15.67 ± 10.95 199.62 ± 13.51
MX2 -0.830 ± 0.072 -0.482 ± 0.100 0.280 ± 0.273 16.27 ± 10.91 210.11 ± 6.62
MX3 -0.774 ± 0.100 -0.568 ± 0.127 0.280 ± 0.273 16.28 ± 10.90 216.31 ± 9.13
RH08 -0.987 ± 0.003 -0.130 ± 0.017 0.095 ± 0.095 5.45 ± 0.65 187.52 ± 1.01
RH09 -0.906 ± 0.030 -0.322 ± 0.067 0.274 ± 0.267 15.89 ± 4.01 199.55 ± 4.20
RH10 -0.909 ± 0.029 -0.323 ± 0.067 0.263 ± 0.256 15.22 ± 4.00 199.55 ± 4.20
Average -0.830 -0.360 0.313 19.034 204.665
Median -0.906 -0.323 0.274 15.887 199.623
Deviation 0.182 0.131 0.210 14.595 12.055

Key shock parameters (About, Top)
Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 22.8 ± 8.9 804.9 ± 28.1 2.34 ± 0.25
VC 62.2 ± 14.2 589.3 ± 41.1 2.34 ± 0.25
MX1 24.2 ± 9.6 807.6 ± 28.7 2.34 ± 0.25
MX2 29.4 ± 6.4 766.5 ± 28.2 2.34 ± 0.25
MX3 33.2 ± 5.0 730.9 ± 27.5 2.34 ± 0.25
RH08 18.7 ± 9.9 797.2 ± 26.0 2.34 ± 0.25
RH09 24.3 ± 9.8 808.3 ± 28.8 2.34 ± 0.25
RH10 23.9 ± 9.5 807.0 ± 28.6 2.34 ± 0.25
Average 29.9 764.0 2.34
Median 24.3 804.9 2.34
Deviation 13.8 75.7 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 203.2 ± 4.4 74.0 ± 10.4 75.9 ± 11.5 174.1 ± 9.3 2.79 ± 0.36 1.17 ± 0.07
VC 295.9 ± 11.0 34.8 ± 4.1 38.3 ± 5.8 186.3 ± 7.3 8.62 ± 1.23 1.59 ± 0.09
MX1 213.2 ± 4.2 73.0 ± 10.2 75.1 ± 11.4 174.5 ± 9.2 2.97 ± 0.39 1.22 ± 0.07
MX2 225.5 ± 4.1 69.0 ± 9.3 71.7 ± 10.9 176.2 ± 8.8 3.32 ± 0.41 1.28 ± 0.08
MX3 229.3 ± 4.3 65.8 ± 8.7 68.8 ± 10.4 177.5 ± 8.5 3.54 ± 0.42 1.30 ± 0.08
RH8 153.8 ± 5.4 76.6 ± 11.0 78.0 ± 11.8 172.9 ± 9.7 2.04 ± 0.26 0.89 ± 0.06
RH9 214.0 ± 4.2 73.0 ± 10.2 75.0 ± 11.4 174.6 ± 9.2 2.98 ± 0.39 1.23 ± 0.07
RH10 211.3 ± 4.3 73.2 ± 10.2 75.2 ± 11.4 174.5 ± 9.2 2.93 ± 0.38 1.21 ± 0.07
Average 218.3 67.4 69.8 176.3 3.6 1.2
Median 214.0 73.0 75.1 174.6 3.0 1.2
Deviation 39.1 13.6 13.0 4.2 2.1 0.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 89.4 ± 9.9 86.4 ± 6.7 87.9 ± 7.1 220.9 ± 7.2 1.04 ± 0.10 0.40 ± 0.04
VC 131.1 ± 10.4 41.3 ± 2.9 44.4 ± 3.6 233.7 ± 7.4 3.21 ± 0.47 0.56 ± 0.05
MX1 94.6 ± 9.6 85.3 ± 6.6 87.0 ± 7.0 221.4 ± 7.2 1.11 ± 0.10 0.43 ± 0.04
MX2 99.9 ± 8.8 80.8 ± 6.2 83.1 ± 6.7 223.0 ± 7.2 1.24 ± 0.11 0.45 ± 0.03
MX3 101.4 ± 8.3 77.2 ± 5.9 79.8 ± 6.4 224.3 ± 7.2 1.32 ± 0.11 0.45 ± 0.03
RH8 66.6 ± 11.1 89.2 ± 7.0 90.3 ± 7.3 219.8 ± 7.3 0.74 ± 0.10 0.30 ± 0.05
RH9 95.0 ± 9.6 85.2 ± 6.6 86.9 ± 7.0 221.4 ± 7.2 1.12 ± 0.10 0.43 ± 0.04
RH10 93.6 ± 9.7 85.5 ± 6.6 87.2 ± 7.0 221.3 ± 7.2 1.10 ± 0.10 0.42 ± 0.04
Average 96.5 78.9 80.8 223.2 1.4 0.4
Median 95.0 85.3 87.0 221.4 1.1 0.4
Deviation 17.7 15.6 15.1 4.4 0.8 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 12:08:37 2005
Justin C Kasper (jck@mit.edu)