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We show that a fundamental choice between various models of an accretion disk around a black hole can be made based on the spectral wavelength distribution of the polarization. This conclusion is based on the possibility of comparing the observed spectral distribution of the polarization with its theoretical values obtained in various accretion disk models. The expected power-law wavelength (frequency) dependences of the polarization for various accretion disk models known in the literature are presented in the table.
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Original Russian Text © S.D. Buliga, Yu.N. Gnedin, T.M. Natsvlishvili, M.Yu. Piotrovich, N.A. Silant’ev, 2014, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiı Zhurnal, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 213–220.
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Buliga, S.D., Gnedin, Y.N., Natsvlishvili, T.M. et al. Wavelength dependence of the polarization of radiation from an accretion disk: Testing accretion disk models. Astron. Lett. 40, 185–192 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773714030049
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