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Caption: Figure 11.
Polarization angle of the limb, plotted for multiple different values of γ∞ and ϕ. The angles are measured relative to the TL ϕTL, which denotes the genuine projected edge of the jet. The blue stars denote the prediction of Equation (49) for the location of ﹩{\tilde{R}}_{{\rm{limb}}}﹩ and hence ﹩{\tilde{\beta }}_{{\rm{limb}}}﹩ (the point at which fR = 0). For i = 17°, we have csci ≈ 3.42, which is why the swing switches from the receding edge to the boosted edge after the second panel.
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