Published March 28, 2024 | Version v1
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Polarization properties of radiation scattered from a frustrum surface

  • 1. Turun Yliopisto

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This IDL code computes polarization properties of radiation single-scattered from a frustrum surface. The illuminating source is at the axis of the frustrum. The code plots figures 4B, S8B, 9B from the paper  "Cygnus X-3 revealed as a Galactic ultraluminous X-ray source by IXPE "  by Veledina et al.  to be published in Nature Astronomy. Detailed description of the formalism is available in the Methods section of the paper and https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01174.  

The data on the orbital variation of the Stokes parameters as observed by IXPE are available in the text file orb_stokes_Main.txt  

 

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