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A magnetosonic wave (also magnetoacoustic wave) is a longitudinal wave〔The wave is longitudinal in the perturbation of the fluid velocity, although the perturbation of the magnetic field is transverse. See Schmidt, ''Physics of High Temperature Plasmas'', p.101.〕 of ions (and electrons) in a magnetized plasma propagating perpendicular to the stationary magnetic field. The wave is dispersionless with a phase velocity ω/''k'' given by :, where ''v''s is the speed of the ion acoustic wave, ''v''A is the speed of the Alfvén wave, and ''c'' is the speed of light in vacuum. In the limit of low magnetic field (''v''A→0), the wave turns into an ordinary ion acoustic wave. In the limit of low temperature (''v''s→0), the wave becomes a modified Alfvén wave. Because the phase velocity of the magnetosonic mode is almost always larger than ''v''A, the magnetosonic wave is often called the "fast" hydromagnetic wave. Both fast and slow magnetoacoustic waves have been recently discovered in the solar corona, which created an observational foundation for the novel technique for the coronal plasma diagnostics, coronal seismology. == See also == * Waves in plasmas * Alfvén wave * Ion acoustic wave * Coronal seismology 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Magnetosonic wave」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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