Fingerprints of thermal Comptonization in accreting neutron stars. Plasma-vacuum interplay in cyclotron lines and polarisation

arXiv:2608.24396 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

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• Core — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anisotropy — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• European Space Agency — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• International Space Science Institute — 1× in this paper

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