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The steady-state solution of Fig. 4 as seen from the side. Open magnetic field lines just inside the rims of both polar caps are plotted. The undulating shape of the equatorial current sheet between them is clearly visible. The solution does not develop the physical instabilities seen in all previous numerical solutions because this physics is not included in our method (we obtain the solution without a current sheet and then reverse the field direction in the southern magnetic hemisphere).

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