The Anisotropic Radiation Transfer due to Resonance Scattering in MCVs

The aim of this proposal is to confirm a new idea of anisotropic transfer forresonance photons in an accretion column on magnetic cataclysmic variables,which we have proposed to explain unusually strong FeK lines observed from somepolars with ASCA (Terada et al 1999). We have then confirmed the idea vianumerical simulations and via detection of rotational modulation in the FeKline EW with ASCA (Terada et al 2001). However, the observational confirmationof the line beaming.. effect has so far been confirmed only from a few polars,and with marginal significance. With Newton, we expect to measure the effectfrom a much larger sample, with a much higher significance. The effect, ifestablished, will afford a valuable new diagnostic tool of the plasmas in MCVs. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]