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Optical/Ultraviolet Continuum Polarization of AGN Accretion Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Omer Blaes  and
Eric Agol
Omer Blaes
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Eric Agol
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Abstract

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We show how the effects of Faraday rotation and a detailed treatment of the radiative transfer can address various aspects of the polarization problem of AGN accretion disks. In particular, we show how accretion disks might explain the rises in polarization observed blueward of the Lyman edge in several quasars.

Type
Part 13. Large and Small Scale Disks in AGN
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 610 - 614
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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