Polarized signatures of orbiting hot spots: Special relativity impact and probe of spacetime curvature

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Fig. 6.

Evolution of the limit inclination angle ι₀ (see Eq. (39)). This angle separates double (ι < ι₀) and single (ι > ι₀) QU loops in Minkowski spacetime for a vertical magnetic field with the hot spot orbital radius r₀. This angle converges toward 0 as r₀ increases. The profile of i₀ with r₀ approximately follows an inverse square root ( profile in solid blue).

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