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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20011011818
04/11/2001 101.76290 1818 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)
Year 2001
Fractional day of year 101.762899
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 65914.5 ± 4.0
Shock type SF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 3.730
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -262.516
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -0.560
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0006
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0245
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0009
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0286
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 9.96, 43.63, 45.66
Event added to database
Mon Feb 14 11:13:31 2005
Event last processed
Sun Mar 13 11:07:29 2005
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
67.428 ± 2.976

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)
Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -613.1 ± 13.9 -741.1 ± 8.0
Vy GSE [km/s] 35.7 ± 18.1 -11.1 ± 8.7
Vz GSE [km/s] 97.1 ± 28.2 115.9 ± 12.6
Wi [km/s] 95.9 ± 5.7 136.0 ± 4.5
We [km/s] 3034.2 ± 179.6 4299.3 ± 142.0
Ni [n/cc] 14.4 ± 1.8 46.3 ± 1.2
Bx GSE [nT] 28.3 ± 1.5 -3.4 ± 6.5
By GSE [nT] 6.8 ± 1.9 -8.3 ± 6.5
Bz GSE [nT] -0.6 ± 5.4 7.6 ± 6.1
Plasma Beta
0.318 ± 0.316
8.652 ± 7.499
Sound Speed [km/s]
123.87 ± 7.33
175.52 ± 5.80
Alfven Speed [km/s]
171.65 ± 13.43
49.48 ± 10.48

Best values of shock front normal for each method (About, Top)
Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.697 ± 0.401 0.553 ± 0.486 -0.456 ± 0.422 -27.15 ± 22.49 141.58 ± 38.89
VC -0.929 ± 0.061 -0.343 ± 0.150 0.137 ± 0.136 7.88 ± 11.72 200.26 ± 9.21
MX1 -0.756 ± 0.436 0.504 ± 0.597 -0.418 ± 0.391 -24.68 ± 32.68 146.29 ± 44.10
MX2 -0.672 ± 0.390 0.569 ± 0.444 -0.474 ± 0.435 -28.31 ± 24.30 139.75 ± 36.16
MX3 -0.699 ± 0.385 0.495 ± 0.512 -0.517 ± 0.465 -31.11 ± 20.33 144.68 ± 41.06
RH08 -0.471 ± 0.008 0.873 ± 0.006 -0.128 ± 0.128 -7.38 ± 2.00 118.33 ± 0.52
RH09 -0.465 ± 0.063 0.863 ± 0.036 -0.196 ± 0.193 -11.28 ± 3.96 118.33 ± 4.16
RH10 -0.468 ± 0.062 0.869 ± 0.035 -0.162 ± 0.161 -9.32 ± 4.03 118.33 ± 4.07
Average -0.645 0.548 -0.277 -16.419 140.944
Median -0.672 0.569 -0.196 -11.276 141.581
Deviation 0.166 0.398 0.227 13.574 26.986

Key shock parameters (About, Top)
Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 57.8 ± 7.7 485.8 ± 16.2 3.28 ± 0.44
VC 13.0 ± 5.9 770.5 ± 14.2 3.28 ± 0.44
MX1 53.1 ± 7.6 538.6 ± 15.7 3.28 ± 0.44
MX2 59.7 ± 7.8 462.8 ± 16.4 3.28 ± 0.44
MX3 56.9 ± 8.3 482.8 ± 16.9 3.28 ± 0.44
RH08 75.7 ± 5.0 335.7 ± 14.5 3.28 ± 0.44
RH09 76.0 ± 5.4 324.1 ± 14.8 3.28 ± 0.44
RH10 75.8 ± 5.2 330.5 ± 14.6 3.28 ± 0.44
Average 58.5 466.3 3.28
Median 59.7 482.8 3.28
Deviation 20.7 148.4 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 82.9 ± 30.7 55.3 ± 2.8 91.4 ± 7.1 204.5 ± 11.9 1.50 ± 0.55 0.40 ± 0.14
VC 199.6 ± 5.0 117.6 ± 6.5 167.3 ± 13.1 176.1 ± 12.5 1.70 ± 0.09 1.14 ± 0.07
MX1 97.6 ± 29.7 63.1 ± 3.2 103.1 ± 8.1 202.2 ± 11.9 1.55 ± 0.47 0.48 ± 0.14
MX2 76.6 ± 31.1 52.1 ± 2.7 86.5 ± 6.8 205.3 ± 12.0 1.47 ± 0.59 0.37 ± 0.15
MX3 86.9 ± 31.4 56.8 ± 2.9 93.8 ± 7.3 204.1 ± 11.9 1.53 ± 0.55 0.42 ± 0.15
RH8 28.5 ± 24.9 24.9 ± 1.3 42.4 ± 3.3 210.4 ± 12.1 1.14 ± 1.00 0.13 ± 0.12
RH9 27.0 ± 26.3 24.5 ± 1.2 41.6 ± 3.3 210.4 ± 12.1 1.10 ± 1.07 0.13 ± 0.13
RH10 28.1 ± 25.6 24.7 ± 1.3 42.0 ± 3.3 210.4 ± 12.1 1.13 ± 1.04 0.13 ± 0.12
Average 78.4 52.4 83.5 202.9 1.4 0.4
Median 82.9 55.3 91.4 205.3 1.5 0.4
Deviation 57.1 30.9 42.7 11.3 0.2 0.3

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 28.2 ± 7.9 25.5 ± 5.1 26.3 ± 5.6 180.8 ± 5.6 1.11 ± 0.24 0.16 ± 0.04
VC 62.1 ± 7.8 48.1 ± 10.1 48.2 ± 10.2 175.9 ± 5.7 1.34 ± 0.30 0.35 ± 0.05
MX1 32.4 ± 8.1 28.9 ± 5.8 29.7 ± 6.3 180.2 ± 5.6 1.13 ± 0.23 0.18 ± 0.04
MX2 26.2 ± 7.9 24.1 ± 4.8 24.9 ± 5.3 181.0 ± 5.6 1.09 ± 0.25 0.14 ± 0.04
MX3 30.5 ± 8.6 26.2 ± 5.3 27.0 ± 5.7 180.7 ± 5.6 1.17 ± 0.25 0.17 ± 0.05
RH8 11.5 ± 6.6 11.7 ± 2.3 12.2 ± 2.6 182.2 ± 5.7 0.99 ± 0.48 0.06 ± 0.04
RH9 11.5 ± 6.3 11.5 ± 2.3 12.0 ± 2.5 182.3 ± 5.7 1.00 ± 0.46 0.06 ± 0.04
RH10 11.9 ± 6.4 11.6 ± 2.3 12.1 ± 2.6 182.2 ± 5.7 1.02 ± 0.47 0.07 ± 0.04
Average 26.8 23.5 24.1 180.7 1.1 0.1
Median 28.2 25.5 26.3 181.0 1.1 0.2
Deviation 16.8 12.4 12.3 2.1 0.1 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)