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The Puzzle of the Lyman Continuum Polarization of QSOs
Gregory Shields, E. Agol, Omer Blaes
Recent spectropolarimetry of QSOs has revealed a surprising rise in polarization in the Lyman continuum of several objects. We discuss several recent attempts to interpret this fea…
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The Lyman Continuum Polarization Rise in the QSO PG 1222+228
Gregory A. Shields
Some QSOs show an abrupt, strong rise in polarization near rest wavelength 750 A. If this arises in the atmosphere of an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole, it may hav…