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Date: 2019 December 15
This is a hyper-cartoon, making colorful and attractive a much more scholarly cartoon in the original paper. Here the authors believe that they have recognized a conical flux tube in the high-latitude solar wind, as observed by Ulysses. It would be bounded by a current sheet that they speculate has its roots in a Fisk-Parker configuration. The concentric but opposite twists suggest a gigantic kinetic Alfvén wave?