Polarized infrared emission from X-ray binary jets
Near-infrared (NIR) and optical polarimetric observations of a selection of X-ray binaries are presented. The targets were observed using the Very Large...
Polarized Mid-infrared Synchrotron Emission in the Core of Cygnus A
We present high-angular (~0.''4) resolution mid-infrared (MIR) polarimetric observations in the 8.7 μm and 11.6 μm filters of Cygnus A using CanariCam on the 10...
Polarized resonance line transfer in a spherically symmetric medium with angle-dependent partial frequency redistribution
In a stellar atmosphere, the resonance line polarization arises from scattering of limb-darkened radiation field by atoms. This spectral line polarization gets...
Polarized synchrotron emission in quiescent black hole X-ray transients
We present near-infrared polarimetric observations of the black hole X-ray binaries Swift J1357.2-0933 and A0620-00. In both sources, recent studies have...
Polarizing properties of grazing-incidence X-ray mirrors - Comment
We show that grazing-incidence telescopes, like those used for X-ray imaging, present negligible instrumental polarization. This property does not depend on the...
Polynomial Approximants for the Calculation of Polarization Profiles in the He I 10830 Å Multiplet
The He I multiplet at 10830 Å is formed in the incomplete Paschen-Back regime for typical conditions found in solar and stellar atmospheres. The positions and...
Populations of High-Luminosity Density-bounded H II Regions in Spiral Galaxies: Evidence and Implications
We present evidence that the H II regions of high luminosity in disk galaxies may be density bounded, so that a significant fraction of the ionizing photons...
PORTA: A three-dimensional multilevel radiative transfer code for modeling the intensity and polarization of spectral lines with massively parallel computers
The interpretation of the intensity and polarization of the spectral line radiation produced in the atmosphere of the Sun and of other stars requires solving a...