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Constraints on Hydrostatic Models of Soft Gamma‐Ray Repeaters

  • Authors: M. Coleman Miller

Miller 1995 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 448 L29.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 1.

Schematic diagram of photon propagation through an atmosphere. A total luminosity Ltot is released deep in the atmosphere at a perpendicular optical depth ﹩\tau _{\perp }\,\gg \, 1﹩. It then scatters many times, occasionally changing polarization, until it finally escapes. The sample photon represented in this figure converted from perpendicular to parallel at ﹩\tau _{\parallel }\,< \,( \omega _{c}/\omega ) ﹩ and was still in the parallel mode when it escaped.

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