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                    Caption: Fig. 1.
Alfvén Mach number (solid line) and the magnetosonic Mach number (dashed line) as a function of the orbital distance. The dotted line indicates the transition region. The Mach numbers are calculated for two magnetic field strengths (4 and 10 nT).
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