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Caption: Figure 2.
Isocontours of the collisional term
S
0/(
f
0ξ) in the space of orbital elements. Horizontal dashed line corresponds to the mean eccentricity
of particle orbits in the initial model. Mass parameters have been set to μ = 0.04 and μ
p = 1/8. Particles migrate linear in time toward the accumulation point (
a
0,
e
0) ≈ (0.63, 0.128) shown by a cross. Contour lines mark the levels 0.0 to 4 × 10
−4 with steps of 10
−4. Note the logarithmic scale of the
a-axis.
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