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Caption: Figure 4.
Capture rate and capture probability as a function of particles' random velocities.
and ε
t = 0.9. ε
n = 0.5 in (a) and (b), while the velocity-dependent coefficient of restitution obtained by Bridges et al. (1984) was used
in (c) and (d). The solid lines show the numerical results of three-body orbital integration while the dashed lines in (b)
show the analytic results for
and 0.1.
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