Longcope, D. W. and S. J. Bradshaw, Slow Shocks and Conduction Fronts from Petschek Reconnection of Skewed Magnetic Fields: Two-fluid Effects, ApJ, 718, 1491-1508 (2010) (ADS)
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Date: 2010 September 15
Update: 2019 November 25
One of the few treatments of the standard reconnection model using a two-fluid MHD simulation. Surprise! The results differ radically from previous ones in the single-fluid MHD approximation, thus presumably invalidating them all - perhaps a majority of the cartoons in this Archive flushed away, in particular CSHKP?
IC stands for "ion cooling," SS for "slow shock,", CF for "conduction front," and RD for "rotational discontinuity".