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Caption: Figure 6.
Time evolution of e and Porb under dynamical tides for 2.5 M⊙ + 2.5 M⊙ binaries over a grid of initial orbital periods and initial eccentricities. The colors depict the age of each system in years. The binaries are only evolved up to the end of their MS lifetimes, or until the binary merges, whichever comes first.
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