Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-10-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
14 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
Within the framework of a flat cosmological model a propagation of an instantaneous burst of nonpolarized isotropic radiation is considered from the moment of its beginning at some initial redshift z0 to the moment of its registration now (at z=0). Thomson (Rayleigh) scattering by free electrons is considered as the only source of opacity. Spatial distributions of the mean (over directions) radiation intensity are calculated as well as angular distributions of radiation intensity and polarization at some different distances from the center of the burst. It is shown that for redshifts z0 large enough (z0 > 1400) the profile of the mean intensity normalized to the total number of photons emitted during the burst weakly depends on initial conditions (say the moment z0 of the burst, the width and shape of initial radiation distribution in space). As regards angular distributions of intensity and polarization they turn to be rather narrow (3 - 5 arcmin) while polarization can reach 70%. On the average an expected polarization can be about 15%.
Dubrovich V. K.
Grachev S. I.
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