Polarization from the oscillating magnetized accretion torus
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2016-06-01 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
We study oscillations of accretion torus with azimuthal magnetic field. For several lowest-order modes we calculate eigenfrequencies and eigenfunctions and calculate corresponding intensity and polarization light curves using advanced ray-tracing methods.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0906.2420,
title = {Polarization from the oscillating magnetized accretion torus},
author = {Jiri Horak and Michal Bursa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.2420},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the conference "The coming of age of X-ray polarimetry", Rome, Italy, 27-30 April 2009