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Caption: Figure 2.
Diverse mosaic of ray-traced flux tubes, illustrating how geometry controls local transfer quantities and observables. In each row (one fireball setup), the columns show normalized color maps of observed delay Δtobs, surface normal zenith cosine ﹩\hat{{\boldsymbol{k}}}\cdot {\hat{n}}_{{ \mathcal S }}﹩, photon magnetic cosine ﹩\hat{{\boldsymbol{k}}}\cdot \hat{B}﹩, photon magnetic azimuth angle ﹩\cos {\phi }_{kB}﹩, accumulated polarization-averaged splitting optical depth ﹩\mathrm{log}{\tau }_{{\rm{ave}}}﹩, gravitational redshift factor 1 + z, and local field strength ∣B∣. Across rows, only the surface footpoint ellipse parameters are varied, with M = 1.5 M⊙ and r⋆ = 12 km fixed. The first seven rows are viewing angle θv = 60°, and the last row is θv = 90°. The fifth and sixth cases with limited footpoint area near the pole seem to be most compatible with spectral phenomenology of magnetar SBs (see Section 3).
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