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The soft scattering controversy

Hard limit:

All radiation within cone

gets Thomson-scattered

For 90°: 10%, 45°: 2.4%

179: 5%-10%

Not enough. No other indications. Not particularly high luminosity (L=1043.3 erg/s for 179)

Ruled out by model selection

179 was in the first 1Ms sometimes brighter, by factor of 3. other 3 sources do not show any sign of variation. need >30