Equatorial plane of the stretched flux rope for β₀ = 0.02 (see Figure 5). The original flux rope is shifted by distance ﹩1.6{r}_{0}﹩ along a direction in the equatorial plane and then stretched toward the heliocenter by distance ﹩0.3{r}_{0}﹩ (left) and ﹩0.6{r}_{0}﹩ (right). Magnetic field direction is marked with arrows; the off-plane component of the magnetic field is normalized per B₀ (see Equation (26)) and shown by color. Local values of plasma parameter ﹩\beta ({\boldsymbol{r}})={\mu }_{0}P({\boldsymbol{r}})/{B}^{2}({\boldsymbol{r}})﹩ are shown with red curves corresponding to levels β = 0.04, 0.08, 0.12, and 0.16 as marked explicitly.