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Shapes of planetesimals for different values of the initial angular momentum. The rows show the column densities of cells that have a volume-filling factor ≥0.5 in the xy- and xz-planes for different values of the initial angular momentum of the cloud at the end of each simulation. We omit the yz-plane because of the evident cylindrical symmetry. The contour of the ellipsoid fitted to the planetesimals in the respective plane are shown in black with the centre of the ellipse marked with a black circle. The figure shows the results for initial values of L/LJ = 1.5, 1.0, 0.5 and 0.0 to illustrate the effect of angular momentum of the cloud on the flattening of the planetesimals.
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