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Caption: Figure 15.
A pole-on view of a flux tube at high compactness (M = 2.0 M⊙). The limited geometric extent of the flux tube results in a large net PD (in contrast to Figure 11) in both VB-off and VB-on cases. A lensed portion results in a disconnected branch in the IRs, the gap being Shapiro and Rømer crossing timescale across roughly the NS radius.
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