What is Faraday pulsation and how does it impact radiative transfer?

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What is the mechanism of faraday pulsation
I’ve bee reading through “Introduction to spectropolarimetry” by del Toro Iniesta and he mentions Faraday pulsation as a mechanism causing
mixing of stokes components in the radiative transfer matrix. This is not rotation, that is separate. Any idea what this is? Thanks john
 
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Thanks, these get me closer. I may have to contact the author. I had the impression it was more than just differential scattering of the stokes parameters. But again thanks. John