Extended Data Fig. 9: Polarization predictions for the TDE disk model.
From: An asymmetric electron-scattering photosphere around optical tidal disruption events
The q signal is shown as a function of viewing angle θ. Different lines show predictions for different disk masses going from mdisk = 0.01 to mdisk = 0.1 M⊙. We observe that if mdisk decreases with time (as might be expected), then the polarization is also generally expected to decrease for a given viewing angle.
