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Fig. 2
FM computed with the simplified Mestel formula (Eq. (16)), which is most frequently used in common practice. It does not fit the numerical value well close to the star or close to the outer border of the disk. This is due to the assumptions that Rin = 0 and Rout = ∞.
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