Component Reconnection: Neutral Line Orientation for Varying Magnetic Shear

• Let reconnection occur along a continuous neutral line from subsolar pt.:

  • Local neutral line determined by local field magnitudes, directions
  • Shear, reconnection rates vary with local conditions (Gonzalez&Mozerí74?)

Simplified for equal fields;

More generally, NL has equal normal components

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