Temporal evolution of the orbital separation a (solid dark) and the fraction of unbound material f_ej according to the kinetic (dashed green, Eq. (1)), thermal (dashed rust, Eq. (2)), and internal energy (orange, Eq. (3)) criterion, respectively. The simulation involving the BH is shown on the left, while the NS scenario is on the right. The thin lines in the plots represent the simulations that contained the new refinement approach (see Sect. 2.3, κ  =  1), while the thick, faint lines correspond to the results of Moreno et al. (2022). On the left-hand side, we additionally show the unbound mass fraction only for cells contained within a radius of R  =  1.6 × 10⁴ R_⊙ around the central binary due to the artificial “rebinding” (see Sect. 3.1) of material in the pseudo-vacuum for t  ≥  4400 d (see Sect. 3.1). Furthermore, the hourglass markers represent the individual starting points of the magnetically driven outflow in the simulations with κ  =  1. The minor ticks in both plots in between 1 − 10 orbits are adapted for readability, and only the 5 orbit mark is shown.