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Caption: Figure 13.
Polarization angle of the limb, plotted for multiple different values of a and ϕ. The terminal Lorentz factor is fixed at γ∞ = 2.5. In all cases, we have γ∞ < csci, so the swing appears on the receding edge. 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).
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