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Database: Wind Shock Analysis
Event ID: 20001442342
05/23/2000 144.98773 2342 [UT]

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General Information (About, Top)
Year 2000
Fractional day of year 144.987726
Arrival time of shock [seconds of day] 85339.5 ± 2.0
Shock type FF
Electron data availability 0
X GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 46.091
Y GSE location of spacecraft [Re] 4.320
Z GSE location of spacecraft [Re] -3.635
Upstream plasma points selected for analysis 0007
Upstream field points selected for analysis 0260
Downstream plasma points selected for analysis 0006
Downstream field points selected for analysis 0251
Minimum chisq/dof for RH8,RH9,RH10 8.48, 10.19, 10.60
Event added to database
Sat Mar 12 21:44:23 2005
Event last processed
Sun Mar 13 11:25:35 2005
Method selected
RH08
Propagation delay to Earth [minutes]
7.182 ± 0.210

Asymptotic plasma parameters (About, Top)
Parameter
Upstream
Downstream
Vx GSE [km/s] -583.9 ± 2.8 -630.1 ± 5.3
Vy GSE [km/s] -22.3 ± 6.0 -41.1 ± 3.7
Vz GSE [km/s] -32.0 ± 3.5 -48.4 ± 3.4
Wi [km/s] 54.6 ± 2.7 62.3 ± 2.5
We [km/s] 1726.9 ± 85.6 1968.5 ± 80.0
Ni [n/cc] 14.9 ± 0.7 32.2 ± 1.9
Bx GSE [nT] -1.8 ± 0.6 -3.4 ± 1.7
By GSE [nT] -11.6 ± 0.6 -8.3 ± 1.3
Bz GSE [nT] -2.8 ± 0.9 9.8 ± 1.4
Plasma Beta
0.648 ± 0.673
1.495 ± 1.739
Sound Speed [km/s]
70.50 ± 3.49
80.36 ± 3.27
Alfven Speed [km/s]
68.55 ± 4.32
52.02 ± 6.04

Best values of shock front normal for each method (About, Top)
Method Nx Ny Nz Theta [degrees] Phi [degrees]
MC -0.232 ± 0.078 -0.950 ± 0.025 0.207 ± 0.204 11.98 ± 4.75 256.29 ± 4.67
VC -0.882 ± 0.049 -0.357 ± 0.111 -0.308 ± 0.298 -17.92 ± 4.13 202.04 ± 7.16
MX1 -0.937 ± 0.105 0.292 ± 0.334 -0.191 ± 0.189 -11.01 ± 5.57 162.69 ± 20.40
MX2 -0.851 ± 0.111 -0.525 ± 0.179 0.003 ± 0.003 0.18 ± 9.24 211.70 ± 12.07
MX3 -0.949 ± 0.039 -0.311 ± 0.116 -0.059 ± 0.059 -3.39 ± 7.62 198.14 ± 7.02
RH08 -0.983 ± 0.003 -0.130 ± 0.016 -0.128 ± 0.128 -7.38 ± 0.86 187.52 ± 0.93
RH09 -0.983 ± 0.011 -0.130 ± 0.063 -0.128 ± 0.128 -7.38 ± 3.38 187.52 ± 3.69
RH10 -0.983 ± 0.012 -0.130 ± 0.064 -0.128 ± 0.128 -7.38 ± 3.52 187.52 ± 3.74
Average -0.850 -0.280 -0.092 -5.288 199.179
Median -0.937 -0.130 -0.128 -7.382 198.144
Deviation 0.255 0.361 0.151 8.758 27.169

Key shock parameters (About, Top)
Method ThetaBn Shock Speed Compression
MC 26.0 ± 4.5 198.0 ± 9.4 2.14 ± 0.18
VC 57.2 ± 2.5 631.2 ± 7.9 2.14 ± 0.18
MX1 84.3 ± 2.6 623.5 ± 7.8 2.14 ± 0.18
MX2 51.2 ± 3.0 598.5 ± 8.2 2.14 ± 0.18
MX3 63.3 ± 2.8 656.3 ± 7.9 2.14 ± 0.18
RH08 72.7 ± 2.6 674.3 ± 7.7 2.14 ± 0.18
RH09 72.7 ± 2.6 674.3 ± 7.7 2.14 ± 0.18
RH10 72.7 ± 2.6 674.3 ± 7.7 2.14 ± 0.18
Average 62.5 591.3 2.14
Median 72.7 656.3 2.14
Deviation 18.0 161.4 0.00

Upstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 48.1 ± 5.4 51.7 ± 1.2 61.6 ± 3.9 83.8 ± 1.4 0.93 ± 0.11 0.57 ± 0.07
VC 98.4 ± 5.0 27.6 ± 0.6 37.1 ± 2.3 94.5 ± 1.7 3.56 ± 0.18 1.04 ± 0.05
MX1 76.7 ± 2.5 4.9 ± 0.1 6.9 ± 0.4 98.3 ± 1.8 15.62 ± 0.41 0.78 ± 0.02
MX2 90.1 ± 4.8 32.5 ± 0.7 43.0 ± 2.7 92.9 ± 1.6 2.77 ± 0.15 0.97 ± 0.05
MX3 93.5 ± 4.1 22.6 ± 0.5 30.8 ± 1.9 95.8 ± 1.7 4.14 ± 0.19 0.98 ± 0.04
RH8 93.2 ± 3.6 14.7 ± 0.3 20.3 ± 1.3 97.3 ± 1.7 6.34 ± 0.24 0.96 ± 0.03
RH9 93.2 ± 3.6 14.7 ± 0.3 20.3 ± 1.3 97.3 ± 1.7 6.34 ± 0.24 0.96 ± 0.03
RH10 93.2 ± 3.6 14.7 ± 0.3 20.3 ± 1.3 97.3 ± 1.7 6.34 ± 0.24 0.96 ± 0.03
Average 85.8 22.9 30.1 94.7 5.8 0.9
Median 93.2 22.6 30.8 97.3 6.3 1.0
Deviation 16.5 14.5 17.0 4.8 4.4 0.2

Downstream wave speeds and mach numbers (About, Top)
Method
dV
Slow
Intermediate
Fast
Slow
Mach
Fast
Mach
MC 22.9 ± 3.8 44.0 ± 4.1 46.8 ± 5.4 85.1 ± 2.2 0.53 ± 0.13 0.27 ± 0.05
VC 46.0 ± 4.4 24.3 ± 1.9 28.2 ± 3.3 92.8 ± 2.4 1.90 ± 0.21 0.50 ± 0.05
MX1 35.8 ± 5.7 4.4 ± 0.3 5.2 ± 0.6 95.8 ± 2.6 8.21 ± 1.16 0.37 ± 0.06
MX2 40.9 ± 4.1 28.5 ± 2.2 32.6 ± 3.8 91.5 ± 2.3 1.44 ± 0.19 0.45 ± 0.05
MX3 42.9 ± 4.7 20.0 ± 1.5 23.4 ± 2.7 93.8 ± 2.5 2.16 ± 0.27 0.46 ± 0.05
RH8 43.3 ± 5.1 13.0 ± 1.0 15.4 ± 1.8 95.0 ± 2.6 3.33 ± 0.41 0.46 ± 0.06
RH9 43.3 ± 5.1 13.0 ± 1.0 15.4 ± 1.8 95.0 ± 2.6 3.33 ± 0.41 0.46 ± 0.06
RH10 43.3 ± 5.1 13.0 ± 1.0 15.4 ± 1.8 95.0 ± 2.6 3.33 ± 0.41 0.46 ± 0.06
Average 39.8 20.0 22.8 93.0 3.0 0.4
Median 43.3 20.0 23.4 95.0 3.3 0.5
Deviation 7.4 12.3 12.9 3.5 2.3 0.1

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 12:08:52 2005
Justin C Kasper (jck@mit.edu)