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Caption: Figure 5.
Time-averaged measurements of the rates of change of binary semimajor axes and eccentricities for the same simulations presented in Figure 4. Notably, while thicker disks can drive binaries to eccentricity equilibria near e ∼ 0.45, thinner disks drive binaries toward substantially higher eccentricities, e > 0.6. All time averaging was performed over the final 1200 binary orbits of each simulation.
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