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Caption: Figure 6.
Change in eccentricity Δe of TOI-2257 b (super-Earth case) as a function of initial e and log-transformed tidal τ. The contour lines represent Δe as the planet experiences tidal effects throughout the simulation. Higher τ values result in greater eccentricity decay.
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