Abstract

Magnetic neutral sheets in weakly ionized interstellar gas are rapidly annihilated by ohmic diffusion. In this paper we extend the model to a sheared magnetic configuration, and show that the magnetic pressure associated with even a small nonzero field drastically reduces the reconnection rate of the reversing component.

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