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In plasma physics, an Alfvén wave, named after Hannes Alfvén, is a type of plasma wave in which ions oscillate in response to a restoring force provided by an effective tension on the magnetic field lines.
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| Alfvén wave | is a | low-frequency | 0.90 | text |
| Alfvén wave | is a | incompressible transverse wave where the perturbations of magnetic field and velocity are perpendicular to the direction of the background magnetic field and the wave vector | 0.90 | text |
| kinetic | instance of | though more complex variants | 0.80 | text |
| inertial Alfvén waves emerge in certain plasma regimes | instance of | though more complex variants | 0.80 | text |
| Alfvén wave | related to Alfvén velocity | The | 0.60 | section |
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| Alfvén wave | related to Alfvén wave modes | Alfvén | 0.60 | section |
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