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Fig. 1.
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Illustration of the Roche geometry in the equatorial plane. It shows the L1, L2, and L3 equipotentials (gray), as well as the splitting surfaces (blue dashed). The splitting surfaces have their normals always perpendicular to the potential gradient.
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