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Fig. 3.

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Orbital separation a between companion and core of the RG over time t for a companion mass of 0.08 M (solid, left axis) and ejected mass fractions f according to the three criteria based on the kinetic (“kin”), thermal (“th”), and internal (“int”) energy as defined in the text (dashed, right axis).

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