Articles | Volume 34, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-421-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-421-2016
ANGEO Communicates
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13 Apr 2016
ANGEO Communicates |  | 13 Apr 2016

The influence of resistivity gradients on shock conditions for a Petschek reconnection geometry

Christian Nabert and Karl-Heinz Glassmeier

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Electrical resistivity can influence the occurrence of shock waves. We derive analytically necessary conditions for shocks in a nonuniform resistive magnetohydrodynamic plasma. The nonuniform resistivity significantly modifies the characteristic velocity of wave propagation. A sufficient gradient of the resistivity in a diffusion region can satisfy the necessary condition for the occurrence of slow shocks, which is related to Petschek reconnection.