Fig. 7.
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Which star is ejected from the destabilised triple? Is it the lowest mass star of the system as is often assumed? The figure shows a cumulative histogram of the mass of the ejected star over that of the lightest component of the inner binary. If this ratio is smaller than one (left of black dashed line), then the ejected star is the lightest component. Only for Democratic-2 encounters is it commonly the case that the lightest component is ejected.
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