Spectropolarimetry and modeling of Galactic Wolf-Rayet star WR156 O LGA M A RY E VA Special Astrophysical Observatory RAS; olga.maryeva@gmail.com For the first time spectropolarimetric observations of Wolf-Rayet star WR156 (WN8h sub-class) were conducted. ... This polarization is, most probably, has an interstellar origin, as its magnitude and orientation are similar to the ones of field stars. ... By its parameters WR156 is similar to other WN8h stars, displaying the line effect. ...

... Based on the measurements of the Stokes parameters in the continuum and in the broad 0.6563 nm hydrogen emission line obtained with the 6-m telescope for the Seyfert galaxy Mkn 6, secular variability of the hydrogen line profile polarization was discovered; a time lag of less than 2 days between the continuum flux and the polarized continuum emission was determined which corresponds to the size of the region where the polarization of the continuum occurs, less than 0.001 pc. ...