The effect of orbital eccentricity on polarimetric binary diagnostics
The effect of orbital eccentricity on polarimetric binary diagnostics is a scholarly work, published in 1982 in ''Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society''. The main subjects of the publication include classical mechanics, orbital mechanics, orbital inclination, electrochemical polarization, Power system harmonics, elliptic orbit, physics, orbital eccentricity, orbital elements, computational physics, formation and evolution of the Solar System, scattering, astrophysics, binary numeral system, orbital plane, polarimetry, circular orbit, orbit, star formation, and eccentricity. The authors find that where previously only second harmonic variations of polarization were present (when the scattering geometry is symmetric about the orbital plane of the system) first and third harmonics are added when the eccentricity e ≠ 0.