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Polarimetric Properties of Event Horizon Telescope Targets from ALMA Draft version March 12, 2021 Typeset using LATEX twocolumn style in AASTeX62 Polarimetric properties of Event Horizon Telescope targets from ALMA Ciriaco Goddi,1, 2 Ivan´ Mart´ı-Vidal,3, 4 Hugo Messias,5 Geoffrey C. Bower,6 Avery E. Broderick,7, 8, 9 Jason Dexter,10 Daniel P. Marrone,11 Monika Moscibrodzka,1 Hiroshi Nagai,12, 13 Juan Carlos Algaba,14 Keiichi Asada,15 Geoffrey B. Crew,16 Jose´ L. Gomez´ ,17 C. M. Violette Impellizzeri,2, 5 Michael Janssen,18 Matthias Kadler,19 Thomas P. Krichbaum,18 Rocco Lico,17, 18 Lynn D. Matthews,16 Antonios Nathanail,20, 21 Angelo Ricarte,22, 23 Eduardo Ros,18 Ziri Younsi,24, 20 Kazunori Akiyama,16, 12, 22, 25 Antxon Alberdi,17 Walter Alef,18 Richard Anantua,22, 23, 26 Rebecca Azulay,3, 4, 18 Anne-Kathrin Baczko,18 David Ball,11 Mislav Balokovic´,27, 28 John Barrett,16 Dan Bintley,29 Lindy Blackburn,22, 23 Raymond Blundell,23 Wilfred Boland,30 Katherine L. Bouman,22, 23, 31 Hope Boyce,32, 33 Michael Bremer,34 Christiaan D. Brinkerink,1 Roger Brissenden,22, 23 Silke Britzen,18 Dominique Broguiere,34 Thomas Bronzwaer,1 Do-Young Byun,35, 36 John E. Carlstrom,37, 38, 39, 40 Andrew Chael,41, 42 Chi-kwan Chan,11, 43 Shami Chatterjee,44 Koushik Chatterjee,45 Ming-Tang Chen,6 Yongjun Chen (H8军 ),46, 47 Paul M. Chesler,22 Ilje Cho,35, 36 Pierre Christian,11 John E. Conway,48 James M. Cordes,44 Alejandro Cruz-Osorio,20 Yuzhu Cui,49, 13 Jordy Davelaar,50, 26, 1 Mariafelicia De Laurentis,51, 20, 52 Roger Deane,53, 54, 55 Jessica Dempsey,29 Gregory Desvignes,56 Sheperd S. Doeleman,22, 23 Ralph P. Eatough,57, 18 Heino Falcke,1 Joseph Farah,23, 22, 58 Vincent L. Fish,16 Ed Fomalont,25 Raquel Fraga-Encinas,1 William T. Freeman,59, 60 Per Friberg,29 Christian M. Fromm,22, 23, 20 Antonio Fuentes,17 Peter Galison,22, 61, 62 Charles F. Gammie,63, 64 Roberto Garc´ıa,34 Olivier Gentaz,34 Boris Georgiev,8, 9 Roman Gold,65, 7 Arturo I. Gomez-Ruiz´ ,66, 67 Minfeng Gu (~O峰 ),46, 68 Mark Gurwell,23 Kazuhiro Hada,49, 13 Daryl Haggard,32, 33 Michael H. Hecht,16 Ronald Hesper,69 Luis C. Ho (UPq ),70, 71 Paul Ho,15 Mareki Honma,49, 13, 72 Chih-Wei L. Huang,15 Lei Huang (ÄÊ ),46, 68 David H. Hughes,66 Makoto Inoue,15 Sara Issaoun,1 David J. James,22, 23 Buell T. Jannuzi,11 Britton Jeter,8, 9 Wu Jiang (_悟 ),46 Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales,1 Michael D. Johnson,22, 23 Svetlana Jorstad,73, 74 Taehyun Jung,35, 36 Mansour Karami,7, 8 Ramesh Karuppusamy,18 Tomohisa Kawashima,75 Garrett K. Keating,23 Mark Kettenis,76 Dong-Jin Kim,18 Jae-Young Kim,35, 18 Jongsoo Kim,35 Junhan Kim,11, 31 Motoki Kino,12, 77 Jun Yi Koay,15 Yutaro Kofuji,49, 72 Patrick M. Koch,15 Shoko Koyama,15 Michael Kramer,18 Carsten Kramer,34 Cheng-Yu Kuo,78 Tod R. Lauer,79 Sang-Sung Lee,35 Aviad Levis,31 Yan-Rong Li (Nfc ),80 Zhiyuan Li (N志远 ),81, 82 Michael Lindqvist,48 Greg Lindahl,23 Jun Liu (刘Ê ),18 Kuo Liu,18 Elisabetta Liuzzo,83 Wen-Ping Lo,15, 84 Andrei P. Lobanov,18 Laurent Loinard,85, 86 Colin Lonsdale,16 Ru-Sen Lu (路如森 ),46, 47, 18 Nicholas R. MacDonald,18 Jirong Mao (毛úc ),87, 88, 89 Nicola Marchili,83, 18 Sera Markoff,45, 90 Alan P. Marscher,73 Satoki Matsushita,15 Lia Medeiros,91, 11 Karl M. Menten,18 Izumi Mizuno,29 Yosuke Mizuno,92, 20 James M. Moran,22, 23 Kotaro Moriyama,16, 49 Cornelia Muller¨ ,18, 1 Gibwa Musoke,45, 1 Alejandro Mus Mej´ıas,3, 4 Neil M. Nagar,93 Masanori Nakamura,94, 15 Ramesh Narayan,22, 23 Gopal Narayanan,95 Iniyan Natarajan,55, 53, 96 Joseph Neilsen,97 Roberto Neri,34 Chunchong Ni,8, 9 Aristeidis Noutsos,18 Michael A. Nowak,98 Hiroki Okino,49, 72 Hector´ Olivares,1 Gisela N. Ortiz-Leon´ ,18 Tomoaki Oyama,49 Feryal Ozel,¨ 11 Daniel C. M. Palumbo,22, 23 Jongho Park,15 Nimesh Patel,23 Ue-Li Pen,7, 99, 100, 101 Dominic W. Pesce,22, 23 Vincent Pietu,´ 34 Richard Plambeck,102 Aleksandar PopStefanija,95 Oliver Porth,45, 20 Felix M. Potzl¨ ,18 Ben Prather,63 Jorge A. Preciado-Lopez´ ,7 Dimitrios Psaltis,11 Hung-Yi Pu,103, 15, 7 Venkatessh Ramakrishnan,93 Ramprasad Rao,6 Mark G. Rawlings,29 Alexander W. Raymond,22, 23 Luciano Rezzolla,20 Bart Ripperda,104, 26 Freek Roelofs,1 Alan Rogers,16 Mel Rose,11 Arash Roshanineshat,11 Helge Rottmann,18 Alan L. Roy,18 Chet Ruszczyk,16 Kazi L. J. Rygl,83 Salvador Sanchez,´ 105 David Sanchez-Arguelles´ ,66, 67 Mahito Sasada,49, 106 Tuomas Savolainen,107, 108, 18 F. Peter Schloerb,95 Karl-Friedrich Schuster,34 Lijing Shao,18, 71 Zhiqiang Shen (沈志强 ),46, 47 Des Small,76 Bong Won Sohn,35, 36, 109 Jason SooHoo,16 He Sun (Yk ),31 Fumie Tazaki,49 Paul Tiede,8, 9 Remo P. J. Tilanus,1, 2, 110, 11 Michael Titus,16 Kenji Toma,111, 112 Pablo Torne,18, 105 Tyler Trent,11 Efthalia Traianou,18 Sascha Trippe,113 Ilse van Bemmel,76 Huib Jan van Langevelde,76, 114 Daniel R. van Rossum,1 Jan Wagner,18 Derek Ward-Thompson,115 John Wardle,116 Jonathan Weintroub,22, 23 Norbert Wex,18 Robert Wharton,18 Maciek Wielgus,22, 23 Corresponding author: Ciriaco Goddi [email protected] 2 Goddi, Mart´ı-Vidal, Messias, et al. George N. Wong,63 Qingwen Wu (4庆文 ),117 Doosoo Yoon,45 Andre´ Young,1 Ken Young,23 Feng Yuan (袁峰 ),46, 68, 118 Ye-Fei Yuan (袁业飞 ),119 J. Anton Zensus,18 Guang-Yao Zhao,17 Shan-Shan Zhao,46 Gabriele Bruni,120 A. Gopakumar,121 Antonio Hernandez-G´ omez´ ,18 Ruben Herrero-Illana,122, 123 Adam Ingram,124 S. Komossa,18 Y. Y. Kovalev,125, 126, 18 Dirk Muders,18 Manel Perucho,3, 4 Florian Rosch,¨ 19 and Mauri Valtonen127 1Department of Astrophysics, Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud University, P.O. 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