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The magnetic field in the tail is confined in a cylinder or slightly expanding cylinder, is aligned toward the Earth in the northern half of the cylinder and away from the Earth in the southern half, reverses across a thin equatorial plane about 1 Earth radius thick, and decreases slowly going inversely with the 1/3 power of the distance from the Earth (Behannon, 1968). The field is approximately constant above (or below) 4 or 5 Earth radii from the equatorial plane.
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Beard, D. B., Bird, M. K., and Huang, Y. H.: 1970, Planetary Space Sci. 18, 1349.
Behannon, K. W.: 1968, J. Geophys. Res. 67, 3791.
Bird, M. K. and Beard, D. B.: 1972, Planetary Space Sci. 20, 2057.
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Beard, D.B., Bird, M.K. (1974). A Self Consistent Theory of the Magnetotail. In: Page, D.E. (eds) Correlated Interplanetary and Magnetospheric Observations. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2172-2_7
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