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Magnetar Fireballs and Short Bursts: Curved Spacetime Lensing, Quantum Electrodynamical Effects, Spectra, Polarization, and Impulse Responses

  • Authors: Zorawar Wadiasingh, Hoa Dinh Thi, Constantinos Kalapotharakos, Kun Hu, Matthew G. Baring, Alice K. Harding, George Younes, Sebastien Guillot, Andrea Sanna, Michela Negro, Jeremy D. Schnittman, Oliver J. Roberts, Eric Burns, Chin-Ping Hu, Ersin Göğüş

Zorawar Wadiasingh et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 286 .

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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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