Massive thin accretion discs. II - Polarization

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Feb 1990

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 242, Feb. 15, 1990, p. 560-569. Research supported by t

Statistics

Computation

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Accretion Disks, Active Galactic Nuclei, Black Holes (Astronomy), Polarized Radiation, Astronomical Models, Computational Astrophysics, Limb Darkening, Ultraviolet Radiation

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The spectrum and polarization of thin accretion disks around massive black holes are calculated using an improved radiative transfer method with all of the relevant opacity sources and a full general relativistic treatment of the radiation propagation. It is found that the overall polarization is much smaller than previously suggested. It is predicted that the degree of polarization should show a distinct broad feature near the Lyman edge, and that the polarization plane should rotate at high frequencies. These effects would confirm the thermal nature of the observed UV radiation and the existence of massive black holes at the center of AGNs.

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