Figure 1 – A schematic of polarization in the SN ejecta. (a) When the photosphere is spherical, the polarization vectors cancel out. (b) When the ion distribution is spherical, the remaining polarization is still cancelled out. (c) When the ion distribution is not spherical, the cancellation is incomplete, and the line polarization is not zero.
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