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Caption: Figure 8.
Polarization of the emission from an equatorial current when the plasmoids move perpendicular to the line of sight (along x), toward and away from the observer (along y), and when averaging over the equatorial plane for i = 27﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{{\unicode{x000b0}}}﹩8, corresponding to viewing a reconnection sheet in the equatorial plane of Cyg X-1.
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