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Caption: Figure 4.
Snapshots of the density evolution (density in g cm−3) at different times during the collision, displaying the distinct stages of the interaction with the disks, for models RN1 (left) and RN2 (right). Axes display position (r, z) in solar radii (the same applies to all snapshots in Figures 6, 9, 10, and 11). The clumping of receding material around the WD position is not physical and is a result of gravity softening to avoid numerical instabilities for particles approaching (r, z) = (0, 0). Videos showing the full evolution are available as RN1.mp4, RN2.mp4, and RN2_zoom.mp4 in Zenodo at DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16887496.
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