1. Magnetic reconnection via current sheets
2. Two-dimensional numerical simulation of the resistive reconnection layer
3. Sweet's mechanism for merging magnetic fields in conducting fluids
4. P. A. Sweet, in Electromagnetic Phenomena in Cosmical Physics, edited by B. Lehnert (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1958), p. 123.
5. H. E. Petschek, “Magnetic field annihilation,” in AAS/NASA Symposium on the Physics of Solar Flares, edited by W. N. Ness (NASA, Washington, D.C., 1964), p. 425.