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Fig. A.1

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Branching ratios collected for all possible outcomes and experiments carried out in this work. Results are sorted from the most to the least probable in the fiducial case (blue filled circle). Different symbols represent the different initial configurations: Case A (circles), case B (diamonds), and case C (squares). Open symbols show cases with thermal distribution of eccentricities, while filled symbols show where all binaries have circular orbits initially. Colors show the different assumed masses (see legend). The left axis labels are the names used to refer to each outcome with the number of collisions needed for each outcome appearing in parentheses. The right labels show the schematic representation of each outcome, similar to Fregeau et al. (2004), but we distinguish between exchange of members or preservation of membership of the original binaries. The branching ratios of cases that match the BN-x-I observed configuration are a subset of some of the listed outcomes; these are connected to their parent outcome by a line (dashed for open symbols, solid for filled symbols). We mark outcomes where no matching velocity was found with a left triangle, denoting the upper limit of their branching ratio. Thus only the outcomes that contain horizontal lines have some chance of producing the observed BN-x-I system, although typically, we only have upper limits on the branching ratio that leads to the observed system.

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