Alfvén
Americannoun
noun
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Understanding how Alfvén waves behave has practical significance for predicting space weather.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
Unlike the more familiar "kink" waves that cause entire magnetic structures to sway and can be seen in solar videos, torsional Alfvén waves create a subtle twisting motion that can only be detected spectroscopically.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
Alfvén waves are magnetic vibrations that move through plasma, first predicted in 1942 by Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
It took several months for mission scientists to download and analyse the data it collected, and to be sure that the spacecraft had indeed crossed the much-anticipated boundary, known as the Alfvén surface.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2021
Swedish physicist Hannes Alfvén proposed the underlying theory behind the boundary in a paper in Nature in 1942, and scientists have been looking for it ever since.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2021
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