caa a22 4500 386367612 CHVBK 20180307111941.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022377800014215 doi S0022377800014215 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022377800014215 Compressible models of fast steady-state magnetic reconnection [Elektronische Daten] We investigate the effects of compressibility on magnetic reconnection, using as a basis the incompressible models of Priest & Forbes and Jardine & Priest. Our results show that compressibility modifies the reconnection process, without changing its essential character. In the region of inflowing plasma, compressibility tends to increase the convergence or divergence of the flow. Also, for regimes with a compression in the inflow the maximum rate of reconnection is increased, while for regimes with an expansion in the inflow the magnetic Mach number at the entrance to the diffusion region is increased. In the region of outflowing plasma the main effects of compressibility are to produce faster and narrower outflow jets, with a lower magnetic field strength. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Jardine M. Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, U.K. Priest E. R. Department of Mathematical Sciences, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, U.K. Journal of Plasma Physics Cambridge University Press 42/1(1989-08), 111-132 0022-3778 42:1<111 1989 42 PLA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377800014215 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377800014215 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jardine M. Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, U.K NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Priest E. R. Department of Mathematical Sciences, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, U.K NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Plasma Physics Cambridge University Press 42/1(1989-08), 111-132 0022-3778 42:1<111 1989 42 PLA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge