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Record circular polarization discovered in the shortest period magnetic cataclysmic variable, RE 1307 + 535

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posted on 2016-01-27, 12:19 authored by P. J. Hakala, V. Piirola, O. Vilhu, Julian Paul Osborne, D. C. Hannikainen
We report the discovery of very strong, variable ( + 50 to –20 per cent) circular polarization in the ROSAT EUV source RE 1307 + 535 in the red (R band) spectral region. The amplitude and the peak value of the broad-band circular polarization are the largest observed so far in any astronomical object.

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Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 1994, 271 (3), pp. L41-L45 (5)

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and Astronomy

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

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Blackwell Science Ltd

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0035-8711

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1365-2966

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1994-09-20

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1994

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2016-01-27

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http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/271/1/L41.short

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en

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