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Caption: Figure 3.
Validation of a compact soliton core in an idealized merger. Radial density profile of the simulated core (red points) compared to the analytic soliton solution (blue line; fitted rc = 2.32 in code units). Both axes are shown in code units; the corresponding physical scaling for m22 = 2 is given in Section 4 (yielding rc ≃ 51 pc and Mc ≃ 7.8 × 108 M⊙). The deviation at large radii reflects unrelaxed merger debris and finite-box/periodic-boundary effects and does not affect the inner soliton core relevant for our analytic estimates.
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