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Simulated monopolar magnetosphere using the hybrid force-free-PIC scheme. The division between the force-free and PIC domains is the equatorial plane (dashed magenta line in the top and middle panels). Top: Spatial distribution of the radial current density normalized to the fiducial current density, , and compensated by (r/r⋆)2 for visualization purposes, for the 40962 cells run. Solid lines show the poloidal magnetic field lines. Middle: Cross-section of the current density profile at r = 1.5RLC as a function of the numerical resolution, and comparison with the exact profile (red dashed-dotted line, Eq. 34). Bottom: Radial profiles of the Poynting flux, L(r), normalized to the monopole solution, LM (Eq. 35), for all three resolutions. Percentages correspond to the amount of numerical dissipation for each run, computed between the flux averaged in the gray areas.
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