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Caption: Figure 2.
Same as Figure 1, but with q-dependent thresholds for our ellipsoidal gap-opening criterion. The dashed curves are the threshold between the opened simulations and the closed simulations predicted by our flat spiral gap-opening criterion (see Section 5). For all panels, the flat spiral gap-opening criterion successfully separates the closed simulations from the opened simulations. In (a), for the equal-mass binaries ( q = 1) both the flat spiral gap-opening criterion and the ellipsoidal gap-opening criterion successfully separate the closed from the opened simulations.
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