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Caption: Figure 1.
The formation of circumstellar disks from a low-mass circumbinary disk that is initially inclined by 60° at t = 18 Porb. The eccentric orbit binary components are denoted by the red circles. The color denotes the gas density using a density-weighted interpolation, which gives a mass-weighted line-of-sight average. The yellow regions are about three orders of magnitude larger than the blue. At this time, the circumstellar disks are gaining eccentricity due to the KL mechanism. The view is in the x–z plane.
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