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Caption: Figure 8.
Distribution of the final orbital inclination (with respect to the reference plane) as a function of the semimajor axis. Top: black circles indicate the planetary systems where no ejections occurred, while red symbols show those in which one planet was ejected. Middle: color indicates the mass of each planet (see inlaid color code caption for details). Bottom: color indicates the planet mass ratio defined as the ratio between the largest and smallest planet masses in the original systems.
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