We thank the reviewer for a positive and constructive review. The resulting
changes to the paper are marked in blue fonts. Below our detailed response.

> This paper presents an important numerical study of large-scale dynamos
> in rotating inhomogeneous turbulence with and without shear. The authors
> analyze helicity fluxes and demonstrate that in the presence of shear,
> hemispheric helicity fluxes play a crucial role in mitigating catastrophic
> quenching. These findings provide significant new insights into the
> long-standing problem of catastrophic quenching in astrophysical dynamos.
> The paper is quite comprehensive, and the work is methodologically sound,
> the results are novel and important, and the presentation is generally
> clear. The finding that shear-induced magnetic helicity fluxes can
> potentially overcome catastrophic quenching has important implications
> for our understanding of astrophysical magnetic fields.

We thank the reviewer for their positive assessment.

> However, there are some considerations that can be taken into account:
> Line 43: Typo in "underlying" theory.

This is now corrected.

> Lines 100-122: The detailed model description in these lines might
> be better placed in Section 2 "Description of the Model" to improve
> readability.

We have now moved lines 97-122 to a new section 2.1 "Setup of our model"
under section 2.

> Line 144: Can the authors discuss the potential robustness of the
> results to the chosen turbulent intensity profile? Would a different
> profile that follows the same boundary conditions lead to different
> helicity fluxes between hemispheres? Would different gradients in the
> turbulent intensity profile affect the hemispheric helicity fluxes?

We have now included a run with a different and steeper velocity profile.
To make the generalization more evident, we have now written .5*(1+cos kz)
instead of cos^2(kz/2). By including a tanh of 5 times the cos function
we obtain a profile with steep flanks. This profile is now mentioned in
the first paragraph of Sect.2.2 and the result is discussed in the new
Section 3.7.

> Line 609-610: The authors chose q=0.5 to avoid supersonic speeds
> at the boundaries. Given that the results show that shear plays an
> important role in overcoming catastrophic quenching, have the authors
> explored other shear parameter values? Are there any observed/expected
> differences at those values?

Similarly to the previous point, we have now included a run with q=3/2.
This is now mentioned at the end of the second paragraph of Section 3,
just before Section 3.1, and in Section 3.5, and the result is included
in Section 3.7.

> Line 702-747: Can the authors discuss the possible physical mechanism
> that leads to super-equipartition field strengths observed in simulations
> with shear? That physical insight would be useful.

In the second and sixth (last) paragraph of Section 3.6, we have now
discussed additional aspects of the magnetic helicity fluxes quoting
earlier work. Detailed comparisons with earlier work would be needed
to make more meaningful statements if the physical nature of these
potentially new fluxes.

> Could they elaborate on the physical mechanism by which shear enables
> more efficient transport of small-scale magnetic helicity between
> hemispheres? And consequently leads to overcoming catastrophic quenching?

This is related to the previous item and he refer to the additional
statements added to Section 3.6.

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