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Caption: Figure 8.
The rates of change of binary semimajor axes and eccentricities for different disk Mach numbers, holding ﹩\nu ={10}^{-3}﹩ constant. Rates of eccentricity excitation and putative equilibrium eccentricities appear to increase monotonically for ﹩{ \mathcal M }\,\geqslant \,20﹩.
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