Electron scattering in cyclotron emission regions
Abstract
The polarization properties of cylindrical magnetic accretion columns are calculated allowing for electron scattering within the emission region. The results are used to estimate the effects of electron scattering and geometry on the observed properties of AM Herculis type systems.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1323358000022062
- Bibcode:
- 1987PASA....7..128M
- Keywords:
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- Cyclotron Radiation;
- Electron Scattering;
- Polarized Radiation;
- Thermal Emission;
- Accretion Disks;
- Computational Astrophysics;
- Electron Energy;
- Astrophysics