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Fig. 2

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Sketch illustrating the difference between two-sided and one-sided torques. a) When the planet is far away from the disk cavity, it experiences two-sided torques from the disk. b) When the planet is at the cavity edge, only one-sided torques operate. The purple and blue arrows denote the Lindblad and corotation torques, respectively.

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