Linear Spectropolarimetry and the Circumstellar Media of Young and Massive Stars
arXiv:1209.5937 · doi:10.1063/1.3701917
Abstract
Linear spectropolarimetry is a powerful tool to probe circumstellar structures on spatial scales that cannot yet be achieved through direct imaging. In this review I discuss the role that emission-line polarimetry can play in constraining geometrical and physical properties of a wide range of circumstellar environments, varying from the accretion disks around pre-main sequence T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be stars, to the issue of stellar wind clumping, and the aspherical outflows from the massive star progenitors of supernovae and long gamma-ray bursts at low metallicity.
12 pages, 12 figures, Invited Review in Stellar Polarimetry: From Birth to Death