Polarimetry and the torus

J. Hough; S. Young; A. Efstathiou

doi:10.1016/0083-6656(96)87012-7

Polarimetry and the torus

J. Hough, S. Young, A. Efstathiou

Centre for Astrophysics Research (CAR)

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Abstract

While the torus plays an obvious role in blocking direct light, and thus increasing the observed polarization from scattering, its role in directly producing polarized flux is less clear. Contributions to the infrared polarization from aligned grains within the torus are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	139-141
Journal	Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
Volume	40
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0083-6656(96)87012-7
Publication status	Published - 1996

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