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Caption: Figure 3.
Distribution of elliptical-disk model parameters across the five AGN morphology bins identified with Gaussian-mixture binning (see Section 5.2), as well as for the full disk-bearing AGN sample (light gray) and the full TDE sample (dark gray). The eight panels show the seven elliptical-disk parameters (inclination (i), emissivity index (q), turbulent broadening (σ), inner radius (ξ1), outer radius (ξ2), apocenter angle (ϕ0), and eccentricity (e)) and the FWHM of the broad Gaussian component included when preferred by the fit. Widths indicate the relative density of the posterior-summary values for the objects or epochs in each group. The central horizontal black bar marks the group median, the vertical black line spans the range of values, and the horizontal caps mark the minimum and maximum values. The TDE sample overlaps the AGN morphology bins in most parameters and shows systematically lower eccentricities and larger nondisk broad-line widths.
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