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to "subsonic", where the speed of sound c_s is defined by

where is the ratio of specific heats, is the pressure, and is the density of the plasma.

A common complication in astrophysics is the presence of a magnetic field. For instance, the charged particles making up the solar wind follow spiral paths along magnetic field lines. The velocity of each particle as it gyrates around a field line can be

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