Interpreting Supernova Polarization Spectra

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Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...199.8409k&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #84.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1429

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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High quality spectropolarimetric observations of supernova are becoming increasing available and provide a powerful way of exploring the asphericity of such events. Here we present some theoretical studies aimed at increasing our understanding of how features appearing in a polarization spectrum give insight into the supernova geometry. We focus our attention on a single spectral line, and explore how various 3-dimensional distributions of line optical depth and electron Thompson opacity produce different polarization line profiles. In particular we calculate the polarization due to clumpy and jet-like geometries.

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