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X-Ray Polarimetry Workshop SLAC, Stanford, California 9-11 February 2004 |
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Polarization from relativistic sources
Maxim
Lyutikov
McGill University, CITA, SLAC
lyutikov@physics.mcgill.ca
Lyutikov, Maxim
I will review polarization generation in relativistic sources like GRBs and parsec scale AGN jets. Polarization may be produced either as synchrotron or synchrotron self-Compton emission in ordered magnetic fields, or by inverse Compton scattering. I will discuss relativistic kinematics of polarization generation in these sources and how various models account for polarization production. I will argue that large scale magnetic fields provide the best explanation for polarization in AGN jets and, if confirmed, in GRBs.
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