Consistency check of the evolution of the binary angular momentum components for all the simulations. In each plot, the L_x, L_y and L_z component evolution is shown from the top to the bottom. In each panel, the dashed line is the ΔL exchange balancing the gravity torques at each time step, the dotted line is the ΔL exchange computed from the accreted particles, and the solid black line is the sum of those two. For comparison, the red line is the angular momentum evolution taken directly from the raw simulation data. All ΔL are in units of  [M₀a₀V_c,0] .