Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000mnras.314..672p&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 314, Issue 4, pp. 672-680.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
4
Accretion, Accretion Discs, Methods: Analytical, Techniques: Polarimetric, Binaries: Close, Novae, Cataclysmic Variables, X-Rays: Stars
Scientific paper
The Stokes imaging technique of Potter, Hakala & Cropper is applied to the polarized emission from the AM Her system ST LMi. For the first time, the cyclotron emission region on the surface of the white dwarf is mapped in terms of optical depth/density in an analytical and objective manner. The region is found to consist of a less dense region leading a higher density region in orbital phase. It is demonstrated that the emission region needs to have a multi-temperature structure in order to explain the spectral slope and the general morphology of the cyclotron humps observed in the IR during the bright phase in ST LMi. Furthermore, it is shown that a secondary emission region, fed by the same magnetic field lines that feed the main emission region, could be responsible for the positive circular polarization in the IR, the position angle variation and the excess flux during the faint phase of the white light observations which cannot be accounted for with a single emission region.
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