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A comment on the damping of magneto-hydrodynamic waves

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It is shown that a revision is necessary in the commonly used expression for the damping scalelength of a magnetohydrodynamic wave in a plasma when the plasma exhibits anisotropic conductivity. The consequence of this revision may be quite drastic in some astrophysical situations.

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  1. Dept. of Applied Physics and Information Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif., USA

    Bibhas R. De

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De, B.R. A comment on the damping of magneto-hydrodynamic waves. Astrophys Space Sci 39, L43–L46 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00648355

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