 Alfvénic Mach-cone slope (source code)

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= Alfvénic Mach-cone slope
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For a stationary cold-plasma disturbance with obstacle speed $u_0>u_A$, the characteristic slope is $m=\sqrt{u_0^2/u_A^2-1}$. It approaches $u_0/u_A$ in the strongly super-Alfvénic limit.

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